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The Civil War_Quiz #3

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What city on the Mississippi, did Lincoln consider to be the "key" to Union victory?   Vicksburg  
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What Tennessee city guarded the gateway to the eastern Confederacy and the rebel war industry in Georgia?   Chattanooga  
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Whose charge up Cemetary ridge was a big mistake?   General George Pickett  
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Jefferson Davis wanted Lee to help relieve the siege of Vicksburg, but Lee had a bolder plan. Where did Lee decide to invade instead?   Pennsylvania  
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Who won the battle of Gettysburg?   the North  
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What Confederate city finally surrendered to Grant on July 4, 1863?   Vicksburg  
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How many years went by before the city of Vicksburg celebrated the 4th of July?   81 years  
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What did the Battle of Gettysburg begin over?   shoes  
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What army held the high ground at Gettysburg?   the North  
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Who admitted that ordering the final attack at Cold Harbor was the only thing he ever did wrong?   Ulysses S. Grant  
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Who was in charge of all nurses in the Union Army and worked for four years without pay?   Dorothea Dix  
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Who did Robert E. Lee felt his first duty was to?   Virginia  
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How long was the Gettysburg Address?   269 words  
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Why did poet Walt Whitman go to work in a Washington DC hospital?   his brother had been wounded  
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What would have happened of both Grant and Sherman had remained stalled in the fall of 1864?   Lincoln would have lost the election  
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What part of the Union strategy was Sherman in charge of?   the attack on Atlanta  
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What happened to the wounded soldiers at the Wilderness?   they burned alive in a brush fire  
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How much did it cost to hire a substitute to take your place in the war if you had been drafted?   $300  
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From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, the fighting was non-stop for how many days?   30 days  
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Where were guns set up just outside of Chattanooga?   Lookout Mountain  
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