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Can
Your "Canned Tour"
Answer These?
Why
did Indiana consider seceding?
What
was the "War of the Canes?"
What
is a "Mercantile Battery?"
Did
a woman really design Grant's campaign plan?
Does
"Old Abe" still fly around the
battlefield?
What
cannon was called the Soda Bottle?
How are George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Henry Clay
connected to the Siege?
Why
did Gen. Joe Johnston hate Jefferson Davis?
What
is under Jefferson Davis' statue's heal?
Who
were Crazy Jane and Whistling Dick?
How
many gallons of water and p0unds of food were
required for both armies each day?
Why
did Wall Street want to secede?
How
many horses are needed for 220 cannon?
What
do Cheerios and the Siege have in common?
What regiment
was first into Vicksburg after the surrender?
What
do Operation Desert storm and the Campaign for
Vicksburg have in common?
Why
is the Campaign for Vicksburg called the
"Engineers' War?"
How
much does a Napoleon howitzer and limber weigh?
What
is "flying artillery"?
How
did a Confederate officer save General Grant's life?
What
do the Grand Canyon and Siege of Vicksburg share?
How
was General Grant hoping to equal George Washington
with a victory at Vicksburg?
Who
or what was the "Child of the Storm?"
What
was the Mechanicsburg Corridor and what was Grant's
solution to the problem?
Who
was the last living Vicksburg siege veteran?
What
officer at Vicksburg befriended accused assassin
Mary Surratt and walked her to the gallows?
This
officer, who handed Maj. Gen. John McClernand his
walking papers, also burned the University of
Alabama and captured Jefferson Davis.
Which
monument was never dedicated?
Why
is General Grant wearing a Navy sword?
What
Union unit wore kilts?
What
is a shee-bang?
How
many tons of coal did an ironclad burn per hour?
Why
does the U. S. Flag flying at the Cairo sport 34
stars?
What
do tombstones back to back in the National Cemetery
mean?
How
much did businesses charge to dig a cave for a family
of two cost during the Siege?
Don
Troiani featured a Vicksburg commander in his
painting "General of the
Confederacy." Who?
A
Vicksburg Iowa veteran's ashes were found in a
warehouse in 2012 and were given a formal burial.
Whose ashes were they?
The
attack of 22 May used a famous military technique
for the first time. What was it?
Nike
has a presence in the Park. Where?
Regiments
from which state fought hand to hand against each
other on 19 and 22 May?
Abraham
Lincoln's brother-in-law was wearing gray on the
battlefield. Where was he?
What
do the Statue of Liberty and the Siege in Vicksburg
have in common?
Why
was the Mississippi Memorial dedicated before it was
completed?
This
last Civil War veteran president signed the Act to
create the Vicksburg National Military Park?
What
is the source of the Sunset Red Granite used to
build the Texas Memorial?
What
former U. S. Vice President was in the Army of
Relief intending to save Vicksburg from the east?
Which
president lost a child during the war?
After
the Siege, what happened to General Grant that kept
him on crutches for two months?
Who
was the last Major General in the Siege to pass
away?
What
group spoke out against the completion of the back portion
of the original Iowa Memorial?
What
tragedy befell General Sherman at Vicksburg?
Why
was Vicksburg against secession?
What
man flew "three miles" without a craft of
any kind?
Why
was Vicksburg, not Gettysburg, the most important
event of the war?
When
did the South surrender?
In what northern state was slavery legal during the
war?
What Union general
tried to close West Point after the war?
Who signed the
"witness paper" for Union flag bearer's Medal of
Honor?
What unit earned the
motto "first at Vicksburg" at the Stockade
Redan?
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Can
A "Canned Tour" Answer These?
A Vicksburg Battlefield guide can.
How
did the armies shoot through all these trees?
What
did Gen. Grant say when he saw the Defenses of
Vicksburg?
How
did US Engineer Steward Tresalian make up for
designing ladders too short for the 22 May assault?
What
common bond did Illinois private Albert Cashier and
Kansas Sgt. Arthur Luther share?
Why
were the Vicksburg campaign casualties so low
compared with other national battles?
What
did Jefferson Davis approve that doctors nationally
wanted to ban?
General
Grant wanted Unconditional Surrender.
What did he get?
The main Vicksburg Commanders
were from the North. Why were they fighting
for the South?
Why
did the Sultana disaster really happen?
Why
didn't the Vicksburg river batteries work as
planned?
Are
there Confederates in the National Cemetery?
Did
a woman create the most sculptures in the Park?
What
does Jefferson Davis have to do with camels in the
Army?
Which
Union states had more troops in Vicksburg than
Pemberton's whole Army?
Which
Union state had the most troops per capita in
Vicksburg?
Why
was Maj. Gen. Fred Grant perturbed at the dedication
of the Illinois monument?
What
were famous gunfighters Black Bart and Jack Slade's
connection to the Siege of Vicksburg?
What
is the connection between the Apollo Theater and the
Siege?
What
park feature has been named a National Historic
Engineering Landmark?
How
does the 101st Airborne commemorate a part of the
Siege of Vicksburg to this day?
Why
did General Grant fear linking with General
Nathaniel Banks at Port Hudson?
Why
would Union troops have been eager to attack
Vicksburg on 19 May?
What
battery fired the first Army salvo into Vicksburg?
What
qualified a sharpshooter?
The
"birthday" of the black American combat soldier is June
6. What happened on that day?
Ripley's
Believe It or Not at Vicksburg. What is the
scoop?
What
engineer would tear down Grant's Headquarters and
become the first president of the Mississippi River
Commission?
How
are the Cairo and Orville Wright connected?
Who were "Pook's Turtles?"
What
is Spiegel Catalog's connection to the Siege?
What
happened on General Grant's birthday in 1876?
110,ooo
Army and Navy shells flew into Vicksburg, but how
many civilians were killed?
Confederate
troops in the trenches amused themselves by watching
kind of races?
What
contribution did Tiffany Studios make to the Park?
What
Union soldier was the Siege's youngest Medal of Honor
winner?
Were
more Americans involved in D-Day or the Siege of
Vicksburg? Which resulted in the most American
casualties?
What
maritime disaster associated with Vicksburg rivaled
the loss of the Titanic?
What
percent of the Vicksburg National Military Park is
considered wetlands?
Is
Fort Nogales the highest point in the Park?
What
Union engineer would later design in Tidal Basin in
Washington, D. C.?
What
union officer from Vicksburg would be the only Civil
War veteran in uniform in World War I?
This
union officer at Vicksburg ordered the first shot
fired at the Battle of Bull Run.
Stephen
D. Lee resigned what post to assume leadership of
the Vicksburg National Park Commission?
Mary
Todd Lincoln's brother in law was in the Army of
Relief and later killed in the East. Who is
he?
Who
is known as the "Mother of the Park?"
The "Father?"
Who
is the only Union Corps commander with a statue in
the park? And why?
What
significant role did the steamer Imperial play?
What
role did agronomy play in the war?
Who
was General Grant's role model?
What
regiment at Vicksburg recorded the last fatality of
the war?
Where
was Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law on the
Vicksburg lines?
Why
did the Vicksburg defenders not get sent to a
prisoner of war camp?
What
common bond did Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
share?
Who paid for the
majority of the memorial for Waul's Texas Legion at
the Great Redoubt?
The most Medal of
Honors awarded in one single action? How many and
where?
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