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History of Virginia

a brief text book for schools
  
  
  
  
  

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REVIEW QUESTIONS

  • 1. Describe the battle of Chancellorsville.

  • 2. Give an account of the death of Stonewall Jackson.

  • 3. Describe the cavalry battle of Brandy Station.

  • 4. Tell of the battle of Gettysburg, and what is said of this battle.

  • 5. What plan did Grant form for subjugating the South?

  • 6. Describe the battles of the Wilderness.

  • 7. What is said of Lee's generalship?

  • 8. Describe Butler's imprisonment.

  • 9. Tell of the bravery of the cadets at New Market.

  • 10. Give an account of Hunter's march through the Valley, and Early's
    defeat of him.

  • 11. Of Sheridan's devastation of the Valley.

  • 12. Describe the siege of Petersburg.

  • 13. The battle of the Crater.

  • 14. What was the situation at the end of 1864?

  • 15. Tell of the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg.

  • 16. When and where did General Lee surrender, and what was the
    respective numbers of the two armies?

  • 17. What is said of Grant's generous spirit?

  • 18. Give Lee's farewell words to his army.

  • 19. Tell about the downfall of the Confederacy, and the results of the
    war.

  • 20. Describe the Army of Northern Virginia, and give the tribute paid
    to the state by a Northern paper.