Q 01/05

A lost copy of Lee's marching orders, found by Union soldiers days before Antietam, was wrapped around what?

A) A plug of tobacco

B) Three cigars

C) A deck of cards

D) A pocket Bible

Answer · why

B) Three cigars

Three cigars were bundled in the paper when a Union corporal spotted it in the grass at a campground. Passed up the chain of command, it told McClella...

Q 02/05

Which future US president, then a young sergeant, served hot coffee to his regiment under fire at Antietam?

A) Rutherford B. Hayes

B) James A. Garfield

C) William McKinley

D) Benjamin Harrison

Answer · why

C) William McKinley

William McKinley, a commissary sergeant in the 23rd Ohio, carried hot coffee and warm food to every man in the regiment without orders. A monument on ...

Q 03/05

Which nurse had a bullet tear through her sleeve at Antietam, killing the wounded soldier she was tending?

A) Clara Barton

B) Dorothea Dix

C) Louisa May Alcott

D) Mary Edwards Walker

Answer · why

A) Clara Barton

Clara Barton reached the field with a wagon of bandages and lanterns she had collected herself, and worked until dark. She went on to found the Americ...

Q 04/05

What grim record in American military history has the Battle of Antietam held since September 17, 1862?

A) Longest land battle

B) Largest cavalry charge

C) Most generals captured

D) Bloodiest single day

Answer · why

D) Bloodiest single day

Bloodiest single day in American history: about 22,700 men were killed, wounded or missing by dusk. That was a quarter of the Union troops engaged and...

Q 05/05

Which Union division commander at Antietam was later wrongly credited with inventing the game of baseball?

A) Alpheus Williams

B) Abner Doubleday

C) John Sedgwick

D) James Ricketts

Answer · why

B) Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday never made the claim himself; a commission named him baseball's inventor in 1908, fifteen years after his death. Historians of the gam...