For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the excitement for battle raced across the country, the governor of Ohio said he could not send the requested thirteen regiments but would send how many?
(a) 8.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 16.

2. When McPherson recounts the tale of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, what name does he say she enlisted under?
(a) Teddy Wakefield.
(b) Lyons Wakeman.
(c) Lyons Rose.
(d) Thomas Lyons.

3. After the battle of Seven Pines, a captain from which state wrote that he was fine as long as there was battle but that afterward he was quite sick for a few days?
(a) Illinois.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. As McPherson discusses religion's role in the Civil War, he notes that a lieutenant from New Jersey who fought in the conflict was what religion?
(a) Mormon.
(b) Quaker.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Atheist.

5. When the 7th Vermont was called forward in June 1862, which of the following regiments pouted while Vermont celebrated?
(a) 2nd Ohio.
(b) 12th Connecticut.
(c) 9th Pennsylvania.
(d) 14th Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing soldiers not eager to fight, McPherson says derogatory comments about these men came from officers who had enlisted for all BUT WHICH of these reasons?

2. Officers appropriated comfortable houses while enlisted men froze in tents in Nashville during November 1864. From what state was the private who complained in his letters?

3. An experience at Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, where the Union line slowly began to leak stragglers, was described by a corporal from which state?

4. After the attack on Fort Sumter, all BUT WHICH of the following states joined the other seven Southern states that had seceded prior to April, 1861?

5. How many children does McPherson report that Jesse Beecher had when he enlisted with the 112th New York in 1862?

(see the answer key)

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