In the Civil War, more soldiers died of bullet wounds than from any other cause.{FALSE}


General Joseph Hooker was popular with soldiers in the Army of the Potomac because he arranged for better food and granted furloughs.{TRUE}


It has been proven by class discussion in the forums, both through written words and even the inclusion of maps and graphics that no additional states seceded from the Union once the war had begun at Fort Sumter when Major Robert Anderson surrendered to General P.G.T. Beauregard.{FALSE}


The South held the "home court advantage" during the Civil War and remained firmly committed to fighting only a defensive war.  As a result of this strategy, they were able to win many battles in the early years of the war, most of them while they had a smaller number of soldiers than the Union had.{FALSE}


Opinion about the war was more divided in the North than in the South.{TRUE}


The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all of the states practicing slavery.{TRUE}


The Confederate constitution was almost identical to the Constitution of the United States.  And the importance of the Constitution's role in this war cannot be understated, because both sides used the same document to support their position.  The Confederacy viewed the document as limiting the power of the federal government, especially the 10th Amendment, reserving all non-enumerated powers to the states.  Lincoln, on the other hand, held the belief, like George Washington and Andrew Jackson before him, that no state possessed the right to leave the union.  Unlike the government under the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of 1789 created an undivisable union.{TRUE}


The First Battle of Bull Run dealt a severe blow to Union morale and dispelled the illusion that the war would be a short one.{TRUE}


Both Antietam and Shiloh could be described as Union victories.{TRUE}


General McClellan was a great trainer of soldiers, but he was reluctant to commit those soldiers to battle.{TRUE}


Lincoln famously uttered "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."  This was not just a flippant comment made by a pandering politician.  It is clear that the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio Rivers, and many tributaries, flow through and around the state.  This fact, coupled with the Union's heavy reliance on steamboats and water transportation systems, for both troop movement as well as communications and supplies, prove that Lincoln was well aware the importance of geography and in this case, was a well-informed Commander-in-Chief.{TRUE}


As discussed in the class forums, the Monitor and the Merrimack battle, although insignificant in itself, marked the end of the era of wooden hull battleships.  When the Confederacy's Monitor defeated the Union's Merrimack, the Union blockade of the South became weaker and weaker as the war dragged on and trading southern cotton for military supplies from Europe continued until the end of the war.{FALSE}