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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which state was the sergeant, three times wounded, stationed near Vicksburg who described debates in his brigade during the winter of 1863-1964?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Illinois.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Texas.

2. McPherson says that one of the reasons for this famous Confederate general's invasion of Tennessee during November 1864 was a hope to revitalize the troops from that state. What was this general's name?
(a) General Braxton Bragg.
(b) General Jubal Early.
(c) General James Longstreet.
(d) General John B. Hood.

3. As McPherson discusses the statistics for married men versus unmarried men, what percentage of married soldiers does he say were killed in action?
(a) 67%.
(b) 48%.
(c) 13%.
(d) 23%.

4. 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?
(a) 42nd Georgia.
(b) 36th Pennsylvania.
(c) 23rd Virginia.
(d) 19th Massachusetts.

5. How many children does McPherson report that Jesse Beecher had when he enlisted with the 112th New York in 1862?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the discussion of the Confederate response to the Emancipation Proclamation, what percentage of the sample 429 Confederate letters voiced pro-slavery arguments?

2. 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?

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. In the discussion of the "fighting drunk" terminology, Confederate soldiers were accused of an unlikely combination of whiskey and what?

5. While discussing differing interpretations of liberty from North and South, McPherson quotes a Texas cavalryman with Forrest who wrote that the issue was all BUT WHICH of these?

(see the answer key)

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