Small Talk-Trivia

Civil War Alphabet Quiz - G

By Lawrence E. Babits · Originally published November 2020 · pp. 5–55

G as in…November 1. The stolen train engine involved in the Great Locomotive Chase 2. U.S. Navy vessel with railroad iron plating 3. This brigadier held Culp’s Hill; his son was XO on USS Monitor 4. This doctor from Perquimans County, N.C., invented a “machine gun” 5. This general “could put courage in the heart of a scared chicken” 6. Marching without orders, this general reinforced Thomas at Chickmauga 7. Gen. Porter’s men covered McClellan’s “change of base” near this mill 8. This “ladies gunboat” guarded Savannah until Dec 1864 9. Battle that saved Colorado from Confederate invasion 10. Union cavalryman who led raid through Mississippi to Louisiana in 1863

Trivia Answers

The General 2. USS Galena 3. General George Sears Greene 4. Richard Gatlin 5. John B. Gordon
General Gordon Granger 7. Gaines’ Mill 8. CSS Georgia 9. Glorieta Pass 10. Benjamin Grierson, promoted to general for the raid