1. In the summer of 1864 Union soldiers dug a tunnel towards Lee’s lines at Petersburg and set off a huge explosion. 400 Confederate soldiers died in the blast. The Union bungled its attack to exploit the breach. The Union attackers got stuck in their own crater. It became a turkey shoot. They lost 4,000 men to the Confederate 1,200. This battle is depicted in a movie with Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. What is the name of the movie?
2. In 1862 Civil War saw the first battle between ironclads. The end of wooden warships was drawing near. What were the names of the two ironclads involved?
3. In 1864 Sherman defeats John Bell Hood and destroys the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Hood then turns north, but Sherman doesn’t take the bait and marches to Savannah, which he presents as a Christmas gift to Lincoln. Does Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind join the Confederate army before or after the fall of Atlanta? Or does he never join the Confederate army?
4. The war officially starts with the bombardment of Fort Sumter. When the fall of Fort Sumter is announced in a train, Orry Main, in the series North & South is the only one not cheering, because he foresees the carnage to come. Later in the series he becomes a Confederate general. On the Confederate side Beauregard directs Confederate artillery, on the Union side Anderson is in charge. What makes this ironic? A. Anderson was Beauregard’s artillery instructor at West Point 2. They were father in law and son in law 3. They were half brothers 4. They tried to kill each other before the war over an argument at a game of poker

Answers: Cold Mountain has powerful scenes portraying the Battle Of The Crater. The ironclads were called the CSS Virginia and the USS monitor. The CSS Virginia was a captured Union ship. Before it entered the Confederate Navy as one of the world’s first ironclads it was called the USS Merrimack. Rhett Butler ditches Scarlett en route to Tara and joins the Confederate army after the fall of Atlanta, he can’t resist fighting for a doomed cause. Anderson was Beauregard’s artillery instructor and apparently he taught him well.