How did you do?

[DanielC]

http://www.civilwar.org/education/contes...efield-20/

[Wild Bill]

I answered 28 questions out of 30 correctly.

[RJNorton]

Battles are definitely not my area - I am only a Captain of the Name That Battlefield Quiz.

[L Verge]

(02-29-2016 06:54 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Battles are definitely not my area - I am only a Captain of the Name That Battlefield Quiz.

I made captain also, but only got 17 correct. I hated multiple choice quizzes in school and I still hate them. I always manage to choose the right answer and then change it! I'd rather write a five-page essay any day.

Bill, which two did you miss?

[Wild Bill]

The one on Forrest charging both ways and I forget what other. I really did not know the Forrest one but should have gotten the second. I often violate the first rule of multiple choice exams--your first instinct is usually correct. I tried to go back and see what the second error was but it would have entailed redoing the whole exam, so I quit while I was ahead.

Actually it is a relatively easy test--just seek out the proper landmark and choose your correct battle. But I have an unfair advantage. I wrote a Civil War and Reconstruction book and I was a battle nut from age 8. I used to read a Civil War book or two a week beyond my regular assignments all the way through undergrad college. I also read the Official Records for fun and copied all the orders of battle in my own notebook. When I taught Civil War I drew the battle field maps on the chalk board filling in troop movements as I lectured.

Yeah, I know, what a bore. Between the Civil War and hustling the girls it is a wonder I passed any regular course. I took the Ciivl War class as a junior. It was supposed to be only for graduate level students. It was breeze. My folks gave me Avalon Hill's game of Gettysburg on Christmas and at one time I could tell you which regiments were in which brigade, in which division, and what corps for both Union and Confederates.

Enough brag. Sorry.

[L Verge]

I'm sitting here staring at your Civil War and Reconstruction book right now. It's right beside your Old South one on my book shelves. Behind me is The Last Shot and Sic Semper Tyrannis. Last Confederate Heroes is at home.

I am not a military historian, but I was forced into being one (briefly) while teaching. My first year of teaching was 1965, at the time of the last year of the CW Centennial. Those battlefield games were all over the place! I would literally stay up the night before I had to teach a specific battle or battles to make sure that I could keep up with my male 8th graders (and a few females). It did not help one bit that my school was one mile from Andrews Air Force Base and all its military men. I even taught the niece of Gen. Westmoreland.

Years later, one of the parents of a boy I taught (a later version of you, I suspect) became a volunteer at Surratt House. She told me that the first week of school in 1965, she asked her son how he liked his teachers. She said I was his favorite (at least that week) because he had tested me with some CW questions, and I knew the answers. The Civil War gods were with me that day...

[BettyO]

I, too answered 17 out of 30 and am a Captain..... I really thought I'd do a little better, however I got a lot of the ones in the Western Theatre wrong - it was never my forte!

[LincolnMan]

I got a score of 20- I guessed at several!

[Wild Bill]

Way to go, Bill!!

[STS Lincolnite]

23 out of 30, rank of Col. Got three wrong that I shouldn't have. Like Bill said, should have gone with my first instinct.

[Thomas Kearney]

I got 10/30 which makes me a lousy Corporal!

[Jim Garrett]

Got 22 but was scored 21 because of the curser. I'm a Capt. Pretty darn old Captain.

[LincolnMan]

So far Wild Bill leads us all!

[RJNorton]

(03-01-2016 08:15 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  So far Wild Bill leads us all!

He said he spent his college years studying the war and chasing girls, but I am thinking he spent far more time on the war.

[Wild Bill]

Whoa! Bill Nash got a perfect score. I missed two