Battle of Nashville - Quiz
Battle of Nashville
  • 1. Which organization erected the memorial at Shy's Hill?
A) Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
B) Land Trust for Tennessee
C) Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force
D) Metropolitan Historical Commission
  • 2. How many flags are included in the memorial at Shy's Hill?
A) Five
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
  • 3. Which state flag is displayed at the Shy's Hill memorial?
A) Minnesota
B) Tennessee
C) Georgia
D) Kentucky
  • 4. When was the marker honoring Minnesota regiments dedicated on Shy's Hill?
A) November 16, 2014
B) December 15, 2014
C) November 16, 2007
D) November 16, 1864
  • 5. Where are bullet holes believed to be present on the Belle Meade Plantation?
A) Walls of the main hallway
B) The back garden fence
C) Columns on the front porch
D) The roof of the mansion
  • 6. Who used the Belmont Mansion as his headquarters?
A) General George Thomas
B) General John Bell Hood
C) General Thomas Woods
D) General William Sherman
  • 7. What was the purpose of the Belmont Water Tower during the battle?
A) Signal station
B) Artillery platform
C) Hospital
D) Ammunition storage
  • 8. Which site served as the headquarters of the Army of Tennessee?
A) Glen Leven
B) Travellers Rest
C) Sunnyside
D) Belle Meade Plantation
  • 9. Where is the Sunnyside antebellum home located?
A) 12 South District
B) Downtown Nashville
C) Charlotte Pike
D) Franklin Pike
  • 10. What was the function of Sunnyside after the first day of the battle?
A) Confederate headquarters
B) Union headquarters
C) Signal station
D) Hospital
  • 11. Which organization is headquartered at Sunnyside?
A) Metropolitan Historical Commission
B) Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
C) Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation
D) Land Trust for Tennessee
  • 12. In what year was Glen Leven built?
A) 1864
B) 1862
C) 1870
D) 1857
  • 13. Which family donated Glen Leven to the Land Trust for Tennessee?
A) The Belmont family
B) The Negley family
C) The Belle family
D) The Thompson family
  • 14. How many acres were donated with the Glen Leven estate?
A) 65 acres
B) 50 acres
C) 100 acres
D) 20 acres
  • 15. Which building served as a hospital and is currently used by the Metropolitan Historical Commission?
A) Downtown Presbyterian Church
B) Glen Leven
C) Travellers Rest
D) Sunnyside
  • 16. Who built the Fort Negley fortification?
A) Confederate soldiers
B) Union volunteer engineers
C) The Tennessee state militia
D) African-Americans
  • 17. During which years was Fort Negley built?
A) 1864–1865
B) 1860–1861
C) 1862–1863
D) 1857–1858
  • 18. Where are many Union dead from the battle buried?
A) Travellers Rest
B) Fort Negley
C) Glen Leven
D) Nashville City Cemetery
  • 19. What is visible at Kelley's Point?
A) A massive memorial statue
B) A restored military hospital
C) Remains of earthworks
D) The headquarters of the Army of Tennessee
  • 20. Where are the guns that fired the first shots in the battle located?
A) Fort Negley
B) Belle Meade Plantation
C) Shy's Hill
D) Kelley's Point
  • 21. Which road did Wilson's Cavalry Corps use to move west?
A) Brown's Creek Road
B) Charlotte Pike
C) Hillsboro Pike
D) Granny White Pike
  • 22. Where did a cavalry action involving three to four hundred troopers take place?
A) Belle Meade Plantation
B) Brown's Creek
C) Montgomery Hill
D) The Cumberland River
  • 23. Which corps followed Smith's detachment as a reserve force?
A) Lee's Corps
B) Schofield's XXIII Corps
C) IV Corps
D) Wilson's Cavalry Corps
  • 24. At approximately what time did Union troops attack the five Confederate redoubts?
A) 2:30 pm
B) 12:00 pm
C) 10:00 am
D) 4:30 pm
  • 25. Which redoubt's defenders offered spirited resistance before being overrun?
A) Redoubt No. 2
B) Redoubt No. 4
C) Redoubt No. 1
D) Redoubt No. 5
  • 26. Who was the highest-ranking Union officer killed in the battle?
A) Smith
B) Col. Sylvester G. Hill
C) Thomas
D) Schofield
  • 27. Col. Sylvester G. Hill was killed by artillery fire from which redoubt?
A) Redoubt No. 2
B) Redoubt No. 5
C) Redoubt No. 3
D) Redoubt No. 4
  • 28. Which corps was tasked with a frontal assault from Granny White and Hillsboro Pikes?
A) IV Corps
B) XXIII Corps
C) XVI Corps
D) Wilson's Cavalry
  • 29. Where were the Confederates originally supposed to have their defensive line?
A) Cumberland River
B) Belle Meade
C) Montgomery Hill
D) Charlotte Pike
  • 30. Which redoubt was captured by troops coming from the north, south, and west?
A) Redoubt No. 2
B) Redoubt No. 5
C) Redoubt No. 1
D) Redoubt No. 4
  • 31. Which Confederate corps was reported as 'wrecked' by the day's fighting?
A) Cheatham's Corps
B) Stewart's Corps
C) Wilson's Corps
D) Lee's Corps
  • 32. What prevented the Confederate retreat from becoming a rout?
A) Reinforcements from Stewart's Corps
B) Rearguard actions by Lee's Corps
C) A strong defensive wall
D) The weather conditions
  • 33. What terrain feature was on the north side of the original Confederate line?
A) Brown's Creek
B) The Cumberland River
C) Hillsboro Pike
D) Charlotte Pike
  • 34. Which division provided the two brigades for the Union diversionary attack?
A) The Army of the Cumberland's main infantry corps
B) Lee's Corps
C) Steedman's Provisional Division
D) Cheatham's Corps
  • 35. What type of troops made up the First Colored Brigade?
A) United States Colored Troops
B) Experienced veteran infantry from the East
C) Foreign mercenaries
D) Elite cavalry units
  • 36. How did the commander describe the white brigade participating in the attack?
A) Highly trained engineering specialists
B) New conscripts, convalescents, and bounty jumpers
C) Veteran units from the Western theater
D) The finest marksmen in the Union army
  • 37. Which Confederate brigade manned the lunette on December 14?
A) Cheatham's Tennessee Brigade
B) Hood's personal bodyguard unit
C) Lee's Alabama Brigade
D) Granbury's Texas Brigade
  • 38. What feature helped mask Granbury's Lunette from the Union troops?
A) Heavy clouds of smoke from the railroad
B) A thick layer of morning fog
C) Trees and brush
D) Stone walls built by local farmers
  • 39. What was the ultimate result of Steedman's attack despite its failure as a distraction?
A) It forced an immediate Confederate surrender
B) It resulted in the capture of General Hood
C) It caused the total destruction of the Confederate cavalry
D) It took fortifications that made Hood's left untenable
  • 40. What prior role did the United States Colored Troops in Steedman's division have?
A) Artillery gunners on naval vessels
B) Garrison troops or railroad guards
C) Scouts and long-range snipers
D) Frontline shock troops
  • 41. Where did the Union and Confederate forces engage shortly before the Battle of Nashville?
A) Savannah
B) Chattanooga
C) Atlanta
D) Franklin
  • 42. Approximately how many men did Thomas have at Nashville?
A) 31,000
B) 55,000
C) 100,000
D) 10,000
  • 43. What provided a natural defensive barrier on the north and east sides of Nashville?
A) A dense forest
B) A series of mountain ridges
C) The Cumberland River
D) The Harpeth River
  • 44. What did Edgar Jones compare the Confederate soldiers' shelters to?
A) Deep caverns
B) Tents
C) Graves
D) Stable stalls
  • 45. Who commanded the Confederate cavalry forces that were sent away from Nashville?
A) John Bell Hood
B) Benjamin F. Cheatham
C) Alexander P. Stewart
D) Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • 46. Who commanded the Detachment of the Army of the Tennessee?
A) John M. Schofield
B) Andrew J. Smith
C) James B. Steedman
D) James H. Wilson
  • 47. Which officer commanded the Provisional Detachment of the District of the Etowah?
A) James B. Steedman
B) George H. Thomas
C) Thomas J. Wood
D) Andrew J. Smith
  • 48. Which of these men was a division commander under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield?
A) Darius N. Couch
B) Kenner Garrard
C) Edward M. McCook
D) Washington Lafayette Elliott
  • 49. Who commanded the Provisional Division under James B. Steedman?
A) Jonathan B. Moore
B) Joseph F. Knipe
C) Charles Cruft
D) Edward Hatch
  • 50. Which cavalry division commander served under James H. Wilson?
A) Edward Hatch
B) Washington Lafayette Elliott
C) John McArthur
D) Samuel Beatty
  • 51. Who was the Union general that Grant planned to send to replace Thomas?
A) Henry Halleck
B) James H. Wilson
C) William T. Sherman
D) John A. Logan
  • 52. What weather event delayed the battle starting on December 8?
A) Extreme heat
B) A heavy thunderstorm
C) Thick fog
D) A bitter ice storm
  • 53. Where did Confederate batteries block the Cumberland River?
A) Murfreesboro
B) Bell's Bend
C) Louisville
D) Franklin
  • 54. Who commanded the Union naval squadron at Nashville?
A) John A. Logan
B) LeRoy Fitch
C) James H. Wilson
D) Ulysses S. Grant
  • 55. Where did Ulysses S. Grant go when he left Petersburg on December 14?
A) Nashville
B) Washington
C) Chicago
D) Louisville
  • 56. Who was the commander of the 20th Tennessee Infantry who died defending his namesake hill?
A) William M. Shy
B) John Bell Hood
C) Benjamin Cheatham
D) Stephen D. Lee
  • 57. What cavalry brigade patrolled to the south of Cheatham's Corps?
A) Rucker's
B) Wheeler's
C) Hampton's
D) Forrest's
  • 58. Which Union general was leading the cavalry that was very active on the Confederate left and rear?
A) Schofield
B) Thomas
C) McArthur
D) Wilson
  • 59. Who did Thomas direct to make an attack on the western face of Shy's Hill?
A) Schofield
B) Smith
C) Wilson
D) McArthur
  • 60. What time of day were the Union forces trying to beat before Hood could retreat?
A) Sunset
B) Midday
C) Midnight
D) Sunrise
  • 61. How many minutes notice did McArthur give before his division began the attack?
A) Five minutes
B) One hour
C) Ten minutes
D) Thirty minutes
  • 62. What blocked Granny White Pike during the retreat?
A) Steedman's infantry
B) Wilson's cavalry
C) A pontoon bridge
D) The Harpeth River
  • 63. At which location did Hood finally get his army across the Tennessee River?
A) Nashville
B) Bainbridge
C) Columbia
D) Franklin
  • 64. How many Federal soldiers were reported killed in the Battle of Nashville?
A) 2,562
B) 4,561
C) 112
D) 387
  • 65. What was the effective strength of the Army of Tennessee reported by Hood on January 20?
A) 2,000
B) 15,000
C) 38,000
D) 18,742
  • 66. Which historian claimed that John Bell Hood killed his army at Nashville?
A) Giuseppe Moretti
B) The Ladies Battlefield Association
C) David Eicher
D) The State of Minnesota
  • 67. Where did Hood retreat after the Battle of Nashville?
A) Nashville, Tennessee
B) Franklin, Tennessee
C) Atlanta, Georgia
D) Tupelo, Mississippi
  • 68. When did Hood resign his command?
A) January 13, 1865
B) December 15, 1864
C) January 13, 1866
D) July 4, 1865
  • 69. Who created the Battle of Nashville monument in 1927?
A) David Eicher
B) Giuseppe Moretti
C) The State of Minnesota
D) The Ladies Battlefield Association
  • 70. What natural event severely damaged the Battle of Nashville monument in 1974?
A) A fire
B) A tornado
C) A flood
D) An earthquake
  • 71. In what year was the Battle of Nashville monument relocated to its current site?
A) 1927
B) 2006
C) 1974
D) 1999
  • 72. Which neighborhood is mentioned as being located on top of the battlefield?
A) Chattanooga
B) Knoxville
C) Memphis
D) Brentwood
  • 73. Who commissioned the 1927 Battle of Nashville monument?
A) The Ladies Battlefield Association
B) The United States government
C) The State of Minnesota
D) Civic leaders of Nashville
  • 74. Where is Granbury's Lunette located?
A) Benham Avenue
B) 190 Polk Avenue
C) Benton Smith Drive
D) Abbott–Martin Road
  • 75. Where is Redoubt No. 1 located?
A) Hobbs Road
B) Benham Avenue in Green Hills
C) Polk Avenue
D) Benton Smith Drive
  • 76. What caused the destruction of most of Redoubt No. 4 in the 1950s?
A) Home construction
B) Railroad construction
C) Installation of a water tower
D) Highway expansion
  • 77. When were Confederate dead reinterred at Mount Olivet Cemetery?
A) 1868
B) 1950
C) 1889
D) 1900
  • 78. In what year was the large monument erected at Mount Olivet?
A) 1868
B) 1955
C) 1910
D) 1889
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