11. What Civil War battlefield included these landmarks: Franklin Road, Wilkinson Pike, Overall Creek, Nashville Pike, and Hell’s Half-Acre?
12. Thousands of German-Americans volunteered for the Union army in order to serve under a particular German-born general. Fill in the blank – when asked who their commander was, these soldiers would reply, “I fights mit (blank)!”
13. What was the first Civil War battle to result in more than 20,000 casualties?
14. What Confederate general had once been a law partner with former President James K. Polk?
15. (Two point question) In what state would you find a state memorial to Confederate Cabinet member Judah Benjamin?
Answers to the questions for Week 3 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, January 27.
11. Battle of Stones River aka Murfreesboro. Ihad a relative in this battle.
12. I fights mit Sigel. Franz Sigel, who messed up the Yankee retreat from Wilson's Creek in 1861, retreated at Pea Ridge in 1862 (the Yankees won despite him) and relived of command for lack of aggression in 1864.
13. Shiloh
14. Gideon Pillow
15. Florida
11. The battlefield for Stones River/Murfreesboro, TN
12. "I fights mit Sigel"
13. Shiloh
14. Gideon Johnson Pillow
15. Ok, I know I will get in trouble here, but I have sources! The one I'm guessing you're after is in Florida. The Gamble Plantation Historic State Park just north of Bradenton,FL. is one.
According to the American Jewish Society Archives, monuments to Judah Benjamin were erected in Richmond, VA (1930), Sarasota, FL (the above named) 1942, and Charlotte, NC, 1948. My source is: www.cjh.org/nhprc/JudahPBenjamin
__________________ "Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage." - R. E. Lee
14- CSA Major General Gideon Johnson Pillow. His generalship can best be summed up in these words of General Grant to a surrendered General Buckner after Ft Donelson- Pillow had gotten away- Says Grant: 'I'm glad he's escaped. I'd much rather have him in command of you fellows.'
15- The Judah P Benjamin State Memorial is in the Gamble Plantation State Park in elenton Florida.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
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