Question

A Mississippi Senator with this surname drew a pistol on Thomas Hart Benton during heated arguments over the Compromise of 1850. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this surname of a Union admiral who led gunboats at the Battle of Fort Henry. A historian with this surname and first name Shelby narrated much of Ken Burns’s The Civil War.
ANSWER: Foote [accept Shelby Dade Foote Jr.; accept Henry Stuart Foote; accept Andrew Hull Foote]
[10e] Shelby Foote’s work has come under fire in recent years for its sympathetic treatment of this myth, which posits that the Confederacy fought primarily for glory, not to preserve slavery.
ANSWER: Lost Cause [or Lost Cause of the Confederacy]
[10h] A 1907 letter by this ex-Confederate disputes the Lost Cause myth. This “Gray Ghost” led namesake Confederate “rangers” to attack Union supply routes in Northern Virginia and later joined the Republican party.
ANSWER: John S. Mosby [or John Singleton Mosby; accept Mosby’s Rangers or Mosby’s Raiders]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2416.2592%71%0%

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Harvard AToronto A1010020
Georgia Tech BPenn A1010020
NYU ARutgers B1010020
Northwestern ATexas A010010
UC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins A010010
Virginia AWUSTL B1010020
Yale BRutgers A1010020
Illinois ASouth Carolina A100010
MIT AIndiana A1010020
Penn State AIowa State A1010020
Chicago CUC Berkeley A1010020
Stanford AYale A1010020
Maryland ABrown A1010020
Chicago AWUSTL A1010020
Minnesota ACornell B010010
Imperial AFlorida B0000
Claremont AMcGill A1010020
Michigan AColumbia B1010020
Minnesota BHouston A010010
North Carolina AColumbia A010010
Chicago BOhio State A010010
Purdue AVanderbilt A1010020
Duke ACornell A1010020
Georgia Tech AFlorida A1010020