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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