CIVIL WAR QUIZ
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1. In the 1860 presidential election, which candidate won Kentucky?  
a. John Breckinridge
b. John Bell
c. Stephen Douglas
d. Abraham Lincoln

2. What was the first Confederate Capital?
a. Charleston, South Carolina
b. Montgomery, Alabama
c. Richmond, Virginia
d. Danville, Virginia

3. What were some of the proposed names for the Confederacy?
a. Washington
b. The Southern United States
c. The Gulf States of the Confederacy
d. All of the above

4. How many slave states stayed loyal to the Union?
a. None
b. Two
c. Four
d. Six

5. Andersonville was the deadliest POW camp in the Civil War. What camp witnessed the second-highest number of deaths?   
a. Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia
b. Salisbury, North Carolina
c. Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
d. Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

6. What Civil War nurse went on to found the American Association of the Red Cross?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Clara Barton
c. Mary Ann Bickerdyke
d. Walt Whitman

7. What was the first federally protected Civil War national battlefield park?
a. Bull Run/Second Bull Run 
b. Gettysburg
c. Chattanooga/Chickamauga 
d. Shiloh

8. How many Union veterans went on to become President of the United States?
a. Six
b. Five
c. Four
d. Three

9. Who was the doctor who removed Richard “Baldy” Ewell’s leg after the battle of Second Manassas, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s arm after Chancellorsville, and Isaac Trimble’s leg after Gettysburg?

10. In 1848, Ulysses S. Grant married his sweetheart Julia Dent. Who was the Best Man?

ANSWERS

1. c. John Bell
Bell of the Constitutional Union Party took Lincoln’s birth state of Kentucky. Of the four candidates, Lincoln finished dead last. Bell and his running mate Edward Everett also won Tennessee and Virginia. Everett would later meet Lincoln face-to-face for the first time on November 18, 1863, the night before they both would give speeches dedicating the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

2. b. Montgomery, Alabama 
Delegates from six states, later to be joined by Texas, met in cramped, muggy, diminutive Montgomery to declare themselves the Confederate States of America in the spring of 1861. The capitol moved to Richmond in May 1861, and to Danville in the last days of the war.     

3. d. All of the above
Before deciding on the Confederate States of America, secession delegates debated extensively over their new national title. Many preferred Washington, insisting their struggle paralleled the American Revolution. Along with the above names, other suggestions included Chicora, Columbia, and the Federal Republic of America.
 
4. c. Four
Delaware, initially neutral Kentucky, Maryland, and disputed Missouri sided with the Union. The District of Columbia also permitted slavery.     

5. d. Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois
Designed to hold only 6,000 inmates, Camp Douglas reached a peak of 12,000. Overcrowding, disease, starvation, and overflowing sewage caused some 4,454 inmates to die before the war ended.

6. b. Clara Barton
Having served as a volunteer nurse at Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battery Wagner, and the Wilderness, Barton also helped identify thousands of bodies buried at Andersonville Prison. Not only did she establish the U.S. branch of the Red Cross, she was its first president, and she continued her work as a nurse in the Spanish American War.    

7. c. Chattanooga/Chickamauga
In 1890, by recommendation of the House Committee on Military Affairs, Chickamauga and Chattanooga became the first two Civil War national battlefield parks in the United States. They were soon joined by Antietam, Shiloh, and Gettysburg. The Bull Run/Manassas area was not mandated a national park until 1940.  

8. a. Six
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley eventually became U.S. Chief Executives. Fellow veterans George B. McClellan and Winfield Scott Hancock failed in bids to win the White House. Both Hayes and McKinley came from the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Both Garfield and McKinley would die in office just as Lincoln did – mortally wounded by pistol shot at close range.

9.  Dr. Hunter McGuire
Born in Virginia, the son of an eye doctor, Hunter Holmes McGuire joined the Confederate Army in 1861. Initially serving as a combat soldier, he became a farm more effective surgeon, having trained with his father and studied in Virginia and Pennsylvania. He worked for the duration, mostly for the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, he became a member of the American Medical Association. A statue of Dr. McGuire stands outside the Virginia State Capitol   
     
10. James Longstreet
Fourth cousin to the bride, James Longstreet was a friend of Grant’s, but that would not prevent him from joining the Confederacy, where he rose to become Lt. General in the Army of North Virginia.

SCORE: 9-10     President! All hail the Commander-in-Chief!
                  7-8       Secretary of War. Lots of power, and lots of paperwork.         
                  5-6       Territorial Governor. Keep wishing.
                  3-4       Mayor of Missalot Hallow  
                   <3       Dog Catcher, and rabies season is coming up