Small Talk-Trivia

Civil War Alphabet Quiz – Q as in... September

By Lawrence E. Babits · Originally published September 2021 · pp. 28–47

1. Supply Organization for an Army 2. Fake cannon 3. He attacked Lawrence, Kansas 4. US river warship captured by CS, then blown up on Atchafalya River 5. Medicine used to treat malaria 6. Confederate artillery position during 1861 Potomac Blockade 7. Another name for Blakeslee cartridge boxes 8. Tenn. lawyer and politician general captured at Fort Donelson & Vicksburg 9. US wooden gunboat that fought CS ironclads off Charleston Jan. 31, 1863 10. New Jersey Union general who graduated in same class as U.S. Grant Answers found on page 47.

Trivia Answers 1. Quartermaster DEPT 2. Quaker Guns 3. William Quantrill 4. USS/CSS Queen of the West 5. Quinine 6. Quantico Creek 7. Quick loaders 8. General William A. Quarles 9. USS Quaker City 10. General Issac Ferdinand Quinby