Civil War Alphabet Quiz - E

By Lawrence E. Babits · Originally published July 2020 · pp. 2–47

General Lee’s bald, “bad old man” 2. John B. Hood first led the Texas Brigade in this 1862 Virginia battle 3. The other name for the Battle of Pea Ridge 4. The engineer who designed and built Mound City gunboats 5. Commanding officer, NY Fire Zouaves, shot by an Alexandria, Va., hotel owner 6. Sherman’s brother in law who also came from 13th Infantry to be a general 7. Confederate division commander who lost a leg at Grovetown, Va. 8. He gave the “other,” much longer Gettysburg Address 9. Remote power source that detonated Confederate river torpedoes 10. This Jan. 1, 1863 document only freed slaves in Confederate controlled territory

Answers found on page 47.

Jubal Early 2. Eltham Landing 3. Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge’s other name) 4. James B. Eads (Mound City gunboats) 5. Col Elmer E. Ellsworth
Charles Ewing, foster brother/brother in law of Sherman 13th Inf. 7. Richard S. Ewell (lost a leg at Groveton, Va.) 8. Edward Everett 9. Electricity stored in galvanic batteries