Test your knowledge ngress Co of y [ ] ibrar L urtes y Co This photograph shows (within brackets) just after he arrived at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863. A few hours later, he would deliver the . he , July 1–3, 1863, involving more than 160,000 troops, was a The Union prisoners of war captured during the battle turning point in the Civil War. What would be sent to Richmond, Va., where officers initially T 6. went to Libby Prison and the enlisted men to Belle Isle. do you know about the battle and the Pennsylvania Many were transferred to other prisons later, including Anderson- town where it was fought? On the sesquicentennial ville. Where were many of the captured Confederates imprisoned? of the historic conflict, we test your knowledge. a. Fort McHenry b. Elmira Prison c. Fort Delaware

The battle resulted in staggering losses for both the Union This statesman delivered a two-hour oration prior to and Confederacy. How many total casualties (soldiers killed, Abraham Lincoln’s famous address at the dedication of a 1. wounded, captured or missing) resulted from the battle? 7. new national cemetery at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863. He a. 51,112 b. 25,263 c. 10,081 later wrote to Lincoln: “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” A professor of religion and modern languages at Bowdoin a. Edward Everett b. William Lloyd Garrison College before the war, this colonel was one of the Union’s c. Frederick Douglass 2. most celebrated officers, leading the Twentieth Maine in the defense of Little Top. a. A. P. Hill b. Joshua L. Chamberlain c. Marie Tepe, a female Union soldier, was among the women who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. She reportedly wore a .44 The geology of the Gettysburg area was a major factor in caliber pistol on her hip and a uniform she the battle and its outcome, with boulders and rocks, such made herself. 3. as those that formed Devil’s Den, scattered across the landscape. What kind of rock is it? This woman wore a riding a. granite b. coal c. jasper dress with two small pistols in 8. her belt and was awarded the Kearney Cross for bravery at the Battle When were the last soldier’s remains of Gettysburg. Who was she? found on the battlefield? a. Lorinda Ann Blair 4. a. July 4, 1898 b. March 19, 1996 c. January 1, 2013 b. Clara Barton c. Indian Eve

This horse was Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s favor- These two soldiers ranked at the bottom of their respective ite. A gray gelding with a black mane and tail, he survived West Point graduating class (a position called “the Goat”), 5. Gettysburg and many but figured significantly in the battle. Who were they? other battles and went with 9. Lee when he became presi- Wo rk a. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant dent of Washington College b. Abner Doubleday and (later renamed Washington c. George Custer and R e f erence s and Lee University) in Virginia ’ after the war. In 1871, not Surviving veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg gathered long after Lee’s death, the

S tudent in the Pennsylvania town on the battle’s 50th anniver- horse contracted tetanus sary in 1913 to reminisce and to be honored by various after stepping on a nail and N ew 10. dignitaries, including President Woodrow Wilson. How many was buried on the campus. T he veterans were there? a. Old Baldy b. Traveller c. Virginia

a. 53,407 b. 1,221 c. 100,648

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