The City of Harrogate
and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area present
5 points for each correct answer, 1 point for each bonus. 30 seconds to answer, and 30 seconds to answer on bonus. Only the team that correctly answers the main question gets the chance for bonus. Competitors may use their issue of Soldier’s Yearly for the questions. However, when these questions appear in later competitions, the competitor may only use their issue of Soldier’s Yearly for that day’s competition.
1. Who was the commander of Union forces at the Battle of Shiloh?
General Ulysses S. Grant
2. Whose detective service did General George B. McClellan rely on for information about Confederate troops?
Allen Pinkerton’s Detective Agency
3. What were the names of the first two ironclads to ever fight each other?
USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
4. Who was the commander of the USS Monitor?
Admiral John Warden
5. Name the bloodiest battle of 1862.
Antietam
6. What did the Confederate Army name their battles after?
The nearest city to the battle
Bonus: What did the Union Army name their battles after?
Local streams
7. Who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic?”
Julia Ward Howe
8. In New Jersey, how much could an acre of land sell for during 1862?
$15 to 20$ an acre
9. What did soldiers call General Robert E. Lee before they gained respect for him?
Granny Lee
10. True or False: General Grant was prepared for the attack at Shiloh.
False
11. In what state did the Battle of Shiloh occur?
Tennessee
12. True or False: Confederate General Robert E. Lee was offered the command of the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War.
True
Bonus: Who did Lee say his loyalty belonged to?
Virginia
13. What was the Confederate name for the Battle of Antietam?
The Battle of Sharpsburg
14. How many casualties occurred in the one day of fighting at Antietam?
23,000
Bonus: On what day was it fought?
September 17, 1862
15. In which two states did most of the battles of the Civil War take place in?
Virginia and Tennessee
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Natalie Sweet
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Lincoln Memorial University
Box 2006
6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
Harrogate, TN 37752
natalie.sweet@lmunet.edu
