Test Your Confederate Knowledge

Questions

by Baxter Key

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  1. Which Confederate general is believed to have personally killed more men than any other American general?
  2. Which general, weighing in at 290 lbs., was the Big Man of the Confederacy?
  3. What Confederate cemetery contains the graves of more than 12,000 Union soldiers?
  4. What was the Confederacy’s bloodiest one-day battle?
  5. What was the Confederacy’s costliest victory in the war?
  6. What general’s last words were “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees”?
  7. Who, speaking of President Jefferson Davis, said, “The man and the hour have met”?
  8. Who said, “I would sooner face a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty”?
  9. What leader said, “We ask nothing; we want nothing; we have no complications"?
  10. What Union general gave his troops the order to “live off the country” while in Mississippi?
  11. What general was an Episcopal priest before the war?
  12. Who taught at the Virginia Military Institute before assuming a post in the Confederate army?
  13. Who had served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce?
  14. Who was a former United States vice-president?
  15. Who was superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Just before the Civil War?
  16. Who headed an expedition to restore order among the Mormons in Utah?
  17. What gritty general had to be strapped to his saddle after losing a leg and the use of one arm?
  18. What beloved general died from friendly fire wounds after a glorious victory?
  19. What bodily loss occurred shortly before his death?
  20. What Bishop (and general) died instantly at Pine Mountain, Georgia, after cannon shot passed through his chest?

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