Test Your Confederate Knowledge

Answers

by Baxter Key

  1. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
  2. General Sterling “Pap” Price.
  3. Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia.
  4. Antietam, Maryland. In the space of a single day, 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing.
  5. Probably the Battle of Chancellorsville, a Confederate victory, but the site of “Stonewall” Jackson’s death by friendly fire.
  6. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s, May 10, 1863.
  7. Noted secessionist William L. Yancey.
  8. Confederate spy Sam Davis Jr., executed by the Union at age 21.
  9. President Jefferson Davis.
  10. U.S. Grant. The soldiers did, stripping the countryside bare.
  11. Leonidas Polk.
  12. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
  13. Jefferson Davis.
  14. John Brekinridge.
  15. P.G.T. Beauregard.
  16. Albert Sidney Johnston.
  17. John Bell Hood.
  18. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
  19. His left arm was amputated.
  20. The “Fighting Bishop” of the Confederacy, General Leonidas Polk.

Scoring your results

1 to 5 correct: You’re a Yankee go back home now.
6 to 10 correct: Well you had an ancestor fight for the Confederacy.
11 to 15 correct: One of you’re parent is from up north, but you were born here
15 to 20 correct: Congratulations you’re a true Rebel

Test Your Confederate Knowledge: Questions

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