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Union Flag Carrier LEVEL ONE
CIVIL WAR QUIZ #8
Confederate Flag Carrier


1) The Chancellorsville and the Wilderness battlefields overlapped. Manassas I and Manassas II battles were fought on some of the same fields. What battle shared part of the area on which it was fought with the 1864 Cold Harbor battle?

2) Although it is commonly believed that the surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War. According to the National Park Service, it was not until Edmund Kirby Smith hauled down the flag in Galveston, Texas that the Confederacy ceased to exist. If the N.P.S. is correct, on what date did the Confederacy cease to exist?

3) Who said "There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!"

4) The Saunders (or Sanders) Field played a role in what battle?

5) Who said, upon receiving a copy of Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191, "If I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home."?

6) What is the significance of the Battle of Yellow Tavern?

7) In 1863, Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville. Almost exactly one year later and within three miles of where Jackson was wounded, another Confederate General was wounded by his own men. Who was the Confederate General?

8) John Pelham was killed at the battle of Kelly's Ford. What river does Kelly's Ford cross?

9) The Watt House played a central role in what battle?

10) On the morning of April 2, 1865, the Union army broke through the Confederate defenses around Petersburg. At that time what Confederate General was killed?



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