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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Longstreet want Lee to do now that the Union army is retreating? (from Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 3, Lee)

Call a truce to discuss the Union's surrender.

Interrogate the prisoners to find out the Union's overall strategy.

Disengage and move the troops between Gettysburg and D.C.

Attack with all force.

2.

Who is Buford initially facing? (from Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 2, Buford)

Longstreet

Heth

Early

Ewell

3.

Why is Reynolds no longer in command? (from Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 2, Buford)

He has been killed.

He has been severely injured and is taken to the hospital tent.

Gen. Meade has arrived and removed him from command.

His horse gets startled by the cannonfire and runs off with him.

4.

Once the Union soldiers start retreating, what is Lee's goal? (from Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 3, Lee)

To force the Union out of Gettysburg entirely.

To fall back to a stronghold outside of Gettysburg.

To keep pushing to capture the hill.

To go after the Union commanders to create fear in the infantry.

5.

Whose presence does Lee feel during his meeting with Ewell, Early and Rodes? (from Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 6, Lee)

The first man he killed in combat

Stonewall Jackson's

John Reynolds'

His son, Rooney's

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