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

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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the discussion of the battle energy, an anemic Yale graduate--who later died at 26--recounted that the double-quick was not a fast enough pace; what disease did the man have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Bright's disease.

2. Soldiers in the discussion of military coercion stood firm under fire for the Prussian army under the command of ________ because they feared their officers more than the enemy.
(a) Gerhard von Scharnhorst.
(b) Frederick William I.
(c) Frederick the Great.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.

3. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?
(a) 18th Mississippi.
(b) 8th Georgia.
(c) 23rd Virginia.
(d) 2nd Michigan.

4. Which soldier in the 103rd Ohio denounced the Emancipation Proclamation in letters to family from January to March of 1863?
(a) General James Vernon.
(b) Colonel Marcus Speigel.
(c) Private Chauncey Welton.
(d) Captain Clement L. Vallandigham.

5. After the battle of Shiloh, which of the following Generals for the 53rd Ohio, promised his men--after an hour lecture--that they would fight with artillery behind them in the next battle?
(a) General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
(b) General William T. Sherman.
(c) General George Brinton McClellan.
(d) General James Abram Garfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a Texas soldier wrote his wife in 1863 that he hoped a friend would shoot him if ever he showed the "white feather," he was killed during which of these battles?

2. After the three month Peninsula campaign, a Pennsylvania private wrote that he had lived on how many crackers from Thursday through Monday?

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

4. When discussing the hardships of soldiers' wives, McPherson says that failure to fight for one's country would be seen to dishonor all BUT WHICH of the following?

5. At the end of "Chapter Two: We Were in Earnest," readers find that the "we were in earnest" chapter title comes from a soldier in which of the following regiments?

(see the answer key)

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