Small Talk-Trivia

Civil War Alphabet Quiz - D

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

1. Standard naval gun at start of Civil War 2. John Hunt Morgan’s second in command who also commanded President Davis’ escort during flight from Richmond through the Carolinas 3. Famous religious building at Sharpsburg 4. Class of semisubmersible Confederate torpedo boats 5. James River choke point with Confederate heavy artillery 6. Casemated ironclad not accepted by USN 7. “Little Giant” who ran against Lincoln in 1860 8. Waterway that was the “back door” to Norfolk 9. Woman authorized by US Secretary of War Simon Cameron to establish military hospitals 10. Sniper’s rock formation at Gettysburg

Answers found on page 47.

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5. Drewry’s Bluff 6. Dunderberg 7. Stephen A. Douglas 8. Dismal Swamp Canal 9. Dorothea Dix 10. Devil’s Den