Can you ace this quiz on Gettysburg equestrian monuments? You’ll be surprised at how quickly you can learn the basics by playing with our quizzes.
This short quiz is part of our collection of Gettysburg quizzes. For a quick refresher of the equestrian monuments that you can visit on your tour, see Civil War Cycling’s “Equestrian Monuments at Gettysburg” page.
Gettysburg Quiz – Equestrian Monuments
This quiz has 8 multiple-choice questions. Good luck!
Gettysburg Quiz – Equestrian Monuments.
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Customizing Your Ride by Theme
The Need for Maps Tailored for Bicyclists
With a good set of maps tailored to the needs of bicycling tourists, you can easily plan a themed ride through the Gettysburg battlefield. First, good maps free you from having to think about the complications caused by one-way roads or surprising and unnecessary encounters with commercial trucking traffic. Second, good maps open up opportunities for learning.
An Example Customization
With a Civil War Cycling PDF map or printed guidebook, you can customize your bike ride to visit “all eight equestrian monuments” at Gettysburg National Military Park.
But consider first whether the National Park Service brochure might be all that you need to start your ride. Unless you know well the Gettysburg road network, you will be frustrated and disappointed with that solution. To prove the point, let’s backup and look at the following very high-level map whose only purpose is to mark the general location of eight equestrian monuments.
One glance at this map and we see the difficulty in planning a safe and meaningful circuit that includes all eight monuments. The problem isn’t that the map is so zoomed-out that it is missing street names and directional arrows. The problem is that even detailed maps like that in the National Park Service brochure are designed for optimal flow of motor vehicle traffic. If you look at the NPS map, it is not at all obvious what roads are safest for bicyclists. You would not know what pathways are most scenic. It just doesn’t make sense to follow a route designed for busses and automobiles.
The Eight Equestrian Monuments
The numbers in the map above correspond to each of Gettysburg’s equestrian monuments, in alphabetical order. The links below will direct you to the commanding officer listed in our hyperlinked Order of Battle:
- Winfield S. Hancock Equestrian (USA)
- Oliver O. Howard Equestrian (USA)
- Robert E. Lee Equestrian (CSA)
- James Longstreet Equestrian (CSA)
- George G. Meade Equestrian (USA)
- John F. Reynolds Equestrian (USA)
- John Sedgwick Equestrian (USA)
- Henry W. Slocum Equestrian (USA)
For more in depth study, please consider one of the reading recommendations in our website’s annotated bibliography for the Battle of Gettysburg and Gettysburg National Military Park.