1. Who was the Salisbury political figure who introduced the convention ordinance for North Carolina to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861?
a) Burton Craige
b) John W. Ellis
c) John I. Shaver
2. When did the attempted escape and riot of prisoners at the Salisbury Confederate prison occur?
a) Christmas Day 1863
b) Nov. 25, 1864
c) Jan. 17, 1865
3. By “official” count, how many prisoners were killed and/or mortally wounded in the above escape attempt and riot?
a) 16
b) 53
c) 121
4. Rupert Vincent, one of the Union prisoners killed in the escape attempt and riot, was the son of …
a) British explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone
b) U.S. Defense Secretary Edward Seward
c) Civil War photographer Matthew Brady
5. What was one of Stoneman’s main missions during his raid on Salisbury April 12-13, 1865?
a) To capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis
b) To destroy the Rowan County Courthouse.
c) To put the Salisbury Arsenal out of commission
6. Years after the war, who was instrumental in donating a silver communion set to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury?
a) Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
b) Mrs. George Stoneman
c) Mrs. Jefferson Davis
7. Salisbury’s Confederate Monument has a sister statue in what city?
a) Baltimore
b) Richmond
c) Charleston
8. According to records from the day, how many Confederate defenders against Stoneman’s raid of Salisbury were captured and imprisoned?
a) 0
b) 215
c) 1,346
9. Who was the firebrand editor of Salisbury newspaper “The Carolina Watchman” during the Civil War years?
a) J.F. Hurley
b) J.J. Bruner
c) J.K. Julian
10. An important supply point during the war, Salisbury was:
a) Headquarters for the Commissary of Subsistence of the 5th N.C. District
b) Headquarters for the 8th N.C. District’s Transportation Depot.
c) Base of operations for the 6th Confederate Regiment stockyards.
11. Union soldiers who joined the Confederate cause were known as:
a) Righteous Bluecoats
b) Galvanized Yankees
c) Reborn Rebs
12. How many Confederate uniforms reportedly were burned by Union Gen. George Stoneman on Main Street?
a) 3,000
b) 30,000
c) 75,000
13. How much in Confederate money went up in flames during Stoneman’s Raid?
a) $750,000
b) $2.6 million
c) $15 million
14. Who authored the most recognized history on the Salisbury Confederate Prison?
a) Mickey L. Black
b) Louis A. Brown
c) James S. Brawley
15. How much money did the United Daughters of the Confederacy have to raise for the Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1909?
a) $10,000
b) $20,000
c) $45,000
16. The Confederate Monument was cast in …
a) Brussels
b) Paris
c) Munich
17. What president signed the pardon for Salisbury Confederate Prison medical officer Dr. Josephus Hall, allowing him to be a U.S. citizen again?
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Andrew Johnson
c) Ulysses S. Grant
18. A fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis spent the night in Salisbury on what date?
a) April 10, 1865
b) April 17, 1865
c) May 1, 1865
19. This state had the most Union soldiers who died at the Salisbury Confederate Prison:
a) Maine
b) New York
c) Pennsylvania
20. Who was left to command the defense of Salisbury against Union Gen. George Stoneman?
a) Gen. Bradley Johnson
b) Col. Charles F. Fisher
c) Gen. William M. Gardner
21. What was the name of Stonewall Jackson’s horse, which was stuffed and is still on display at the Virginia Military Institute Museum?
a) The Grey Ghost
b) Little Sorrel
c) Old Sparky
22. What famous person in the war said, “War means fightin’ and fightin’ means killin’?”
a) John Wilkes Booth
b) Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
c) Union Gen. William Sherman
23. Robert E. Lee graduated in what position in his 1825 West Point class?
a) First
b) Second
c) Last
24. What distinction did the 69th North Carolina (C.S.A.) have?
a) Two companies of Cherokee Indians
b) Two women soldiers
c) Two midgets
25. Who were the Knights of the Golden Circle?
a) A group of Northern abolitionists
b) A secret order that promoted Southern interests with the goal of conquering Mexico, Central America and Cuba
c) Union spies who infiltrated Confederate military command posts
26. What Southern state initially favored allowing the new Republican administration a trial run and if it committed no act violating Southern rights, they would support the Union?
a) North Carolina
b) Virginia
c) Tennessee
27. The first stamp of the Confederacy, a five-cent denomination, green in color and made in London, displayed a picture of:
a) President Jefferson Davis
b) A mint julep
c) Confederate battle flag
28. During Stoneman’s Raid, Union troops raided and burned the office of the local newspaper. What was its name?
a) Salisbury Post
b) Carolina Watchman
c) Western Carolinian
29. Captain Thomas Courtenay of the Confederate Secret Service invented:
a) Invisible ink
b) The hand grenade
c) The “coal torpedo,” a bomb disguised as a lump of coal
30. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was not the only piece of writing that stirred abolitionists. “The Impending Crisis of the South,” condemned slavery as an economic threat to poor Southern whites. It was written by a Salisbury native. Who was he?
a) Hinton Rowan Helper
b) Hinton James
c) Benjamin Hedrick
31. The first building purchased by Historic Salisbury Foundation for restoration was:
a) The Utzman-Chambers House
b) The Josephus Hall House
c) The Salisbury depot
32. In March 1863, a group of 40 or 50 Salisbury women took up arms against what they saw as their oppressors, who were:
a) Union soldiers
b) Pro-war activitists
c) Local merchants
33. Soldier’s Memorial AME Zion Church was named for:
a) The slaves who joined the Army
b) The Union soldiers who fought for the freedom of the slaves
c) Slave owners who died in the war
34. Before it became the National Cemetery in 1870, the property on which it sits was:
a) A cornfield
b) A baseball field
c) A textile mill
35. Catawba College was founded and spent its early years in Newton. During the Civil War, it was used as:
a) A hospital
b) A prison
c) A high school
36. Noting the poor economic conditions here two decades after the war, Presbyterian evangelist R.G. Pearson proclaimed, “Next to the grace of God, Salisbury needs …”
a) A Presbyterian Church
b) A cotton mill
c) A hospital
37. After the war, the first government-funded black school opened its doors in Salisbury. It was:
a) J.C. Price School
b) The Horah School
c) Ellis Street School
38. Union Lt. Gen. B.F. Cheatham missed the Battle of Bentonville because of a situation in Salisbury. What was it?
a) He stopped to free the Union soldiers held in the Confederate prison.
b) Angry women demanded the Union Army share its supplies.
c) Men and supplies clogged the Salisbury rail yard and he could not get through.
39. The mountain counties of North Carolina were of particular concern to Gov. Zebulon Vance because of:
a) “an astonishing amount of disloyalty”
b) “an astonishing amount of moonshine”
c) “an astonishing amount of contraband”
40. As the peace treaty was being signed at Appomattox, what tune was the brass band playing outside?
a) Battle Hymn of the Republic
b) Dixie
c) Auld Lang Syne

Civil War quiz  answers
1 a; 2 b; 3 a; 4 a; 5 c; 6 c; 7 a; 8 c; 9 b; 10 a; 11 b; 12 c; 13 c; 14 b; 15 a; 16 a; 17 b; 18 b; 19 c; 20 c; 21 b; 22 b; 23 b; 24 a; 25 b; 26 a; 27 a; 28 b; 29 c; 30 a; 31 b; 32 c; 33 b; 34 a; 35 a; 36 b; 37 c; 38 c; 39 a; 40 c