GHS TEST 6

Question 1

Which Cabell County native served in the U.S. and Confederate congresses and then as a Confederate brigadier general?

Answer 1

Albert Gallatin Jenkins

Question 2

On what holiday did Confederate spy Belle Boyd kill her first soldier?

Answer 2

July 4th

Question 3

Upshur County native Sirene Bunten was this age when she started keeping a diary documenting the Civil War in her region.

Answer 3

16

Question 4

Confederate spy Nancy Hart helped troops capture this city in 1862.

Answer 4

Summersville

Question 5

This key member of “Stonewall” Jackson’s staff later surveyed and mapped much of the southern West Virginia coalfields.

Answer 5

Jedediah Hotchkiss

Question 6

Ths one-time friend of “Stonewall” Jackson led Union forces at the Battle of Charleston in 1862.

Answer 6

Joseph A. J. Lightburn

Question 7

Which one of the following is NOT true about Confederate General John McCausland of Mason County?

Answer 7

wounded during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg

Question 8

In which Eastern Panhandle city did Union troops win a victory after Confederates had burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864?

Answer 8

Moorefield

Question 9

What is West Virginia’s most visited historic site?

Answer 9

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Question 10

The “Bee Line March” from Shepherdstown was part of what war?

Answer 10

Revolutionary War