For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz

James M. McPherson

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Chapter 1, This War is a Crusade

Chapter 2, We Were in Earnest

Chapter 3, Anxious for the Fray

Chapter 4, If I Flinched, I Was Ruined

Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers

Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers

Chapter 7, On the Altar of My Country

Chapter 8, The Cause of Liberty

Chapter 9, Slavery Must be Cleaned Out

Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home

Chapter 11, Vengeance Will be Our Motto

Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz

McPherson tells of a sergeant in the 20th Indiana during the Mine Run campaign who'd left _____________ to enlist. (from Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers)

Between May 5 and June 22, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia experienced casualties amounting to what percent of their original strength? (from Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause)

In 1864, an officer in which regiment wrote of a successful attack on Confederate lines, defending the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg? (from Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers)

During the discussion of leadership, which of the following Generals had a very different reputation at Gettysburg than he had earlier at Malvern Hill? (from Chapter 4, If I Flinched, I Was Ruined)

When a young private predicted the bullet had not been made that would shoot him, McPherson notes he was correct because the private died in what prison? (from Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers)