Who Said It?

1. "Last year, they could have saved their slaves, but now it is too late." Who said it?

John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
General William T. Sherman

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2. Who said this about the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac? "No one evil agent so much obstructs this army as the degrading vice of drunkenness." 

Julia Ward Howe
Clara Barton
General George B. McClellan
Abraham Lincoln

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3. "General Grant is a butcher." Who said it?

General Robert E. Lee
General George B. McClellan
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln

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4. One of these men dismissed Abraham Lincoln as "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon." Who was it? 

John Wilkes Booth
General George B. McClellan
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass

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5. In his diary, Lincoln's young secretary referred to Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary by a number of less-than-respectful nicknames. Which of these is NOT a nickname he used?

Old Fuss-and-Feathers
Her Satanic Majesty
The Tycoon
The Hell-Cat

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6. After John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, the dying president was moved to a bed in a house across the street. As he lingered through the night, several of his closest advisors waited by the deathbed. Moments after he died quietly at 7:22 in the morning, which 6-word sentence was reported to have been spoken at his bedside by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?

"They have killed their truest friend."
"Now he belongs to the ages."
"To dust we shall all return."
"He sleeps now with the angels."

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7. A Union general once boasted, "My headquarters will be in the saddle." After he was soundly defeated by Robert E. Lee's army, a soldier said of him, "Looks like his headquarters were where his hindquarters should've been." Who was the unfortunate general?

General George B. McClellan
General Ambrose Burnside
General John Pope
General Joseph Hooker

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8. During the war's first two years, the Union cause suffered through a long string of defeats in the East and several changes in command as Abraham Lincoln searched for a man who could bring him decisive victories. The public outcry over the futility of the army and its revolving-door commanders had turned the job into such a hotseat that when this general was notified that he had been given command of the Army of the Potomac, he responded, "I've been condemned without a trial." Who was it?

General Ulysses S. Grant
General John Pope
General Ambrose Burnside
General George Meade

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9. This eyewitness to the Lincoln assassination said of the killer, "It was Booth. I could say it if I was on my deathbed." Who was this eyewitness? 

Washington Policeman John Parker
Mary Todd Lincoln
Actor Harry Hawk
Actress Laura Keene

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10. "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can. And keep moving on." Who said it?

General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
General William T. Sherman

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