DO YOU KNOW?

Test your knowledge of the Civil War by seeing how many of the following questions you can answer correctly. The answers to # 1-8 are on page 80 of Volume 11, Number 4. Please send your answers to the "Teaser" question by email to northandsouth@netptc.net or by mail to the Auberry address on the Subscription page. The author of the first correct answer drawn from the North & South hat will receive a book prize.

1. Camp William Penn, site of a training camp for African American troops, was located on the farm of this abolitionist couple.

2. Corporal William Rihl, the first soldier killed north of the Mason-Dixon Line (June 22, 1863), was a member of this unit.

3. This Confederate general presided over the burning of Chambersburg in July 1864.

4. This armored warship, combining steam and sail power, was built in Philadelphia.

5. An explosion which claimed 78 lives took place at this Pennsylvania arsenal on September 17, 1862, the same date as the battle of Antietam.

6. This Pennsylvania native was the first Union colonel killed in combat.

7. Name the two official unit designations of the original Pennsylvania Bucktails.

8. This Philadelphia native, buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, was a Confederate lieutenant general.

Teaser. What is the importance of the following militia companies: Washington Artillery, National Light Infantry, Logan Guards, Ringgold Light Artillery, and Allen Guards?

WE DO NOT HAVE A WINNER!
For only the second time, 1 think. in over eleven years we do not have a winner. The "Do You Know" in North & South 11.2 showed photographs of twenty Civil War officers and asked readers to identify them. No-one got all twenty right. The closest anyone came was fourteen out of twenty and that answer was submitted by Thomas Tate of Orefield, Pennsylvania. The correct answers were: (1) Sterling Price (2) Beverley Robertson (3) Robert Gould Shaw (4) Regis deTrobriand (5) William Pendleton (6) Fitzhugh Lee (7) Robert E. Lee (8) Benjamin Grierson (9) Thomas Devin (10) Adelbert Ames (11) Charles Russell Lowell (12) Tom Rosser (13) George S. Patton (14) J. Howard Kitching (15) Lew Wallace (16) John McCausland (17) (18) David Hunter (19) George Crook (20) William Averell.