1. Chapter Questions Colonel Oliver Brattle 1. What time did the firing of Fort Sumter begin? 2. How did this town react to the canons and firing? 3. How did Colonel Oliver Brattle feel? What experience made him feel this way?

2. Chapter Questions Lily Malloy 1. In what state do Lily Malloy and her family live? 2. What month did the attack on Fort Sumter occur? 3. Would you like to have Lily’s father? Why or why not? 4. How old is Patrick? Where did he go? What did he take with him that made their father angry?

3. Chapter Questions Shem Suggs 1. How old is Shem? 2. Why does he want to join the battle? 3. Is he in the North or the South? How can you tell?

4. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. What does Gideon want to get involved in? 2. Why does he want to join? Which side? 3. How does he try to help the war effort? 4. What is his vow? (vow = promise, oath, swear)

5. Chapter Questions Flora Wheelworth 1. Which side does the Wheelworth household support? 2. How did they show their support? 3. What did women give to their husbands, beaus and boyfriends as “keepsakes”?

6. Chapter Questions James Dacy 1. What is James Dacy’s job? 2. What was James surprised and furious to see in Baltimore? Why did this enrage him and the other men? 3. Why did he call the citizens of Baltimore “traitors”?

7. Chapter Questions Toby Boyce 1. How old is Toby? Why does he want to join the confederacy? 2. How does he join the army? 3. What was “the first miracle he had ever seen”?

8. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. Why was Gideon not allowed to join the Northern Army (Union) the first time he tried? 2. What did he do so that he could join? 3. What did he say his name was? Why did he change it?

9. Chapter Questions Virgil Peavey 1. Is Virgil from the North or the South? 2. Why did he believe his side would win? 3. What made the men want to throw the old schoolmaster from the moving train?

10. Chapter Questions Nathaniel Epp 1. What is Nathaniel’s job? 2. Does Nathaniel like the city of Washington DC? Why or why not? 3. How did Nathaniel profit from the death of one of his subjects?

11. Chapter Questions Shem Shuggs 1. How far did shem walk to meet up with the cavalry? 2. Why did shem get greta? 3. What words does shem use to describe Greta?

12. Chapter Questions Dietrich Herz 1. Which side is Dietrich fighting for? 2. Why does he not feel like a foreigner? 3. What does he find in the shirt that is sent to him from the Soldier’s Aid Society in New York?

13. Chapter Questions Dr. William Rye 1. How does Dr. Rye feel about the war? 2. What words does he write that support your answer to question #1? 3. What is Dr. Rye’s job?

14. Chapter Questions Lily Malloy 1. How does Patrick return Father’s glasses? 2. What game does Patrick describe? 3. What IMPORTANT supply is Patrick lacking? 4. Does Lily’s father read the letter? How do you know?

15. Chapter Questions Toby Boyce 1. Is Toby a good fife player? Why or why not? 2. Does he seem to like army life? How do you know?

16. Chapter Questions James Dacy 1. Which type of regiment was dressed in baggy red pantaloons, leather leggings, red-braided blue jackets and a red fez cap with a long black tassel? 2. Was he impressed by this group of soldiers or not? 3. What does he see in the woods that make him nervous?

17. Chapter Questions Judah Jenkins 1. Is Judah a supporter of the North (Union) or South (Confederate)? 2. Who is James Jackson? 3. What makes Judah join the army?

18. Chapter Questions General Irvin McDowell 1. Which side is the General on? 2. Why does he feel his job will be almost impossible? What does he write that supports this?

19. Chapter Questions Flora Wheelworth 1. What does the Soldiers’ Friend League do? 2. Why do the women believe General Beauregard has not yet attacked Washington?

20. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. Why does Gideon say he feels like a spy? 2. What made him angry at his fellow soldiers? 3. How did he get back at the ignorant man who asked Gideon to write a letter home and then said that the “blood of black people was thinner and inferior to that of whites”?

21. Chapter Questions Colonel Oliver Brattle 1. What is Colonel Oliver Brattle’s opinion of General Beauregard? What words does he use to support his opinion? 2. Where were the soldier’s supposed to “make their stand”?

22. Chapter Questions A.B. Tilbury 1. Why does A.B. Tilbury believe southerners are “Cruel-hearted, war-loving villains”? 2. How far did he march on the first day?

23. Chapter Questions Carlotta King 1. Is Carlotta a free person or a slave? What words tell you? 2. Why does Carlotta decide not to run to the Union troops?

24. Chapter Questions Nathaniel Epp 1. What did the Union army do to the Confederate towns on the way to Bull Run? 2. Why was Nathaniel’s picture of the human soul leaving the body such a big success?

25. Chapter Questions Virgil Peavey 1. What was General Jackson’s nickname? How did he get that nickname? 2. What did General Jackson do to all the liquor he found along their marching route? 3. What promise does Virgil make to his friend, Tuck?

26. Chapter Questions General Irvin McDowell 1. Why did General McDowell have to wait an extra day? What was he waiting for? 2. Who did he say was “hovering above” his men, “awaiting their decision” in order to encourage the men to stay an extra week? 3. Why were there many men surrounding the chaplains’ tents?

27. Chapter Questions Shem Suggs 1. What did shem find strange about the men who considered themselves whole-souled Christians? 2. What book was being read? Did shem like the book?

28. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. What time did the drums start drumming in preparation for the battle? 2. What time did the battle begin?

29. Chapter Questions Flora Wheelworth 1. What day was the battle? 2. How long did Flora pray?

30. Chapter Questions Edmund Upwing 1. What is Edmund Upwing’s job? 2. Where was he taking his passengers today? Why? 3. What did he take notice of, just in case?

31. Chapter Questions Judah Jenkins 1. What was Judah Jenkins supposed to find out by galloping straight at the fighting? 2. What happened to the man standing too close to the cannon? 3. What happened to Judah’s horse?

32. Chapter Questions Dietrich Herz 1. How late were the German troops? 2. Did the Confederates know they were coming? 3. What do you think happened to Dietrich?

33. Chapter Questions Toby Boyce 1. What did one soldier call Abraham Lincoln? 2. What did Toby want to do? 3. Where was he supposed to stay?

34. Chapter Questions James Dacy 1. Describe what James Dacy saw. 2. What made him begin cheering?

35. Chapter Questions Colonel Oliver Brattle 1. How does Brattle describe General Beauregard during the battle? 2. Where did General Johnston say the battle was, and therefore he was going?

36. Chapter Questions A.B. Tilsbury 1. Why does Tilsbury say that the men’s mothers would not have recognized them? 2. What does he say that shows he is a union soldier?

37. Chapter Questions Dr. William Rye 1.What did Dr. Rye do during the battle?

38. Chapter Questions Edmund Upwing 1. Why did his passengers fill his tin cup with champagne?

39. Chapter Questions Virgil Peavey 1. What happened to Tuck? 2. What devious thing did General Sherman and his men do? Did this help or hurt the Confederates?

40. Chapter Questions Dietrich Herz 1. Why was the man “looking straight back at him” but not doing anything to help? 2. Who did he worry about and speak to while he laid in the grass?

41. Chapter Questions Carlotta King 1. What is Carlotta’s experience with the battle?

42. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. What was Gideon Adam’s role during the battle?

43. Chapter Questions Judah Jenkins 1. What did Judah do to get a horse? 2. Who arrived and ordered his troops to march at “quickstep”?

44. Chapter Questions AB Tilbury 1. What did the Union soldiers shoot at the southern army? 2. Why did Tilbury consider himself lucky?

45. Chapter Questions SHEM Suggs 1. Who was his colonel? 2. Why did he shoot the yank? How did he feel after he did?

46. Chapter Questions General Irvin McDowell 1. Was his flanking attack a success? 2. What made him curse General Patterson?

47. Chapter Questions Toby Boyce 1. Why did Toby sneak off toward the fighting?

48. Chapter Questions James Dacy 1. Why did the Union troops run away from the battle? 2. What did James Dacy do to try to stop the soldiers from retreating?

49. Chapter Questions Colonel Oliver Brattle 1. What is Brattle’s opinion of General Beauregard based on this description? 2. Who arrived in time to see the South win the battle?

50. Chapter Questions Edmund Upwing 1. Why did the picnickers pack up in a hurry? 2. What man did Edmund Upwing praise for galloping, leaping and dragging carts away to create a path for the carts?

51. Chapter Questions Carlotta King 1. Was Carlotta excited at the outcome of the battle? 2. What did Carlotta do when she was supposed to be finding and helping her master?

52. Chapter Questions Dietrich Herz 1. Who is rustling around in the dead soldier’s pockets? What are they doing? 2. Why did Deitrich “curse” them?

53. Chapter Questions Shem Shuggs 1. How does Shem describe the scene after the battle? 2. What does he do after he eats some hardtack (a tough kind of bread)?

54. Chapter Questions Nathaniel Epp 1. Who was Nathaniel planning to photograph now?

55. Chapter Questions Dr. William Rye 1. What did the doctors and surgeons do after they ran out of chloroform and whiskey? 2. What made up the pile between the two surgery tables?

56. Chapter Questions Gideon Adams 1. Why did one soldier say, “The finger of the Almighty is in it!”? 2. What vow/promise did Gideon make?

57. Chapter Questions Toby Boyce 1. What did Toby pick up as a souvenir? 2. Why did he run back to Georgia and his Grandpap?

58. Chapter Questions Edmund Upwing 1. How long did it take the carriage to get back to Washington? 2. What happened to General McDowell?

59. Chapter Questions Flora Wheelworth 1. Why did Flora help all the soldiers, Union or Confederate? 2. Who can we guess was the German who Flora talks about when she says, “clutched a photograph of a woman and would not be parted from it, even in sleep”?

60. Chapter Questions Lily Malloy 1. How long did it take for news of the battle to reach Lily’s family? 2. What happened to Patrick?