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