Q 01/05

After Gettysburg, Lee offered his resignation to whom?

A) Alexander Stephens

B) Jefferson Davis

C) James Seddon

D) Judah Benjamin

Answer · why

B) Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis. The Confederate president refused to let him go, and Lee stayed in command of his army for the rest of the war.

Q 02/05

Gettysburg sits just north of Pennsylvania's border with which state?

A) Delaware

B) Maryland

C) Virginia

D) West Virginia

Answer · why

B) Maryland

Maryland. With the state line so close, the armies arrived back to front: Confederates reached Gettysburg from the north and west, while Union troops ...

Q 03/05

Which phrase opens Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

A) With malice toward none

B) When in the course of human events

C) Four score and seven years ago

D) We the People

Answer · why

C) Four score and seven years ago

Four score and seven years ago. That is 87 years, which reaches back to 1776: Lincoln dated the nation's birth to the Declaration, not to the Constitu...

Q 04/05

Which general took command of the Union army only days before it fought at Gettysburg?

A) George Meade

B) Joseph Hooker

C) Ambrose Burnside

D) George McClellan

Answer · why

A) George Meade

George Meade. Woken in his tent before dawn by a messenger from Washington, he assumed he was being arrested, not handed the army.

Q 05/05

Gettysburg was the Civil War's bloodiest battle, but which battle saw the war's bloodiest single day?

A) Shiloh

B) Chickamauga

C) Cold Harbor

D) Antietam

Answer · why

D) Antietam

Antietam. Its roughly 23,000 casualties in one September day in 1862 ended Lee's first invasion of the North and gave Lincoln the opening to issue the...