Trivia Quiz: Civil War

Question 1: At which battle did the Union suffer 7,000 casualties in twenty minutes?

 A: Cold Harbor
 B: Wilderness
 C: Anteitam Creel
 D: Chickamunga

Question 2: Of whom as Abraham Lincoln speaking when he said, "I can't spare this man, he fights."?

 A: McClellan
 B: Hooker
 C: Grant
 D: Thomas

Question 3: Which of these cities changed hands 72 times during the war?

 A: City Point, Virginia
 B: Corinth, Mississippi
 C: Shelbyville, Tennessee
 D: Winchester, Virginia

Question 4: Who was the grandfather of Confederate General George W. Randolph?

 A: Thomas Jefferson
 B: James Monroe
 C: Paul Revere
 D: George Washington

Question 5: Which battle was fought from July 1-3, 1863?

 A: Antietam
 B: Spotsylvania
 C: Shiloh
 D: Gettysburg

Question 6: Who was called the "Rock of Chickamauga"?

 A: George Thomas
 B: Joseph Hooker
 C: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
 D: Braxton Bragg

Question 7: Which of these cities was not destroyed or heavily damaged by the Union forces during the Civil War?

 A: Columbia, South Carolina
 B: Vicksburg, Mississippi
 C: Atlanta, Georgia
 D: Savannah, Georgia

Question 8: How did Stonewall Jackson die?

 A: Pneumonia
 B: Execution
 C: Bled to death
 D: Shot by sniper

Question 9: The C.S.S. Alabama was sunk near which port city?

 A: Baton Rouge, LA
 B: Boston, MA
 C: Matamoros, Mexico
 D: Cherbourg, France

Question 10: What was General Sherman's "Christmas present" to Abraham Lincoln?

 A: $200,000 in gold
 B: Charleston, SC
 C: Savannah, GA
 D: Atlanta, GA