SOLARTOYS
MILITARY TRIVIA
THE CIVIL WAR
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1. Six states of the lower
South dissolved their tie to
the Union and sent delegates
to Montgomery on Feb. 4, 1861.
The upper states of the South
waited until what event
occurred?

2. Grant detested business but
loved anything to do
with what?

3. Stonewall was a great
tactician who used these two
specific methods for his many
victories. What were they?


4. Robert E. Lee received how
many demerits at West Point
and graduated in what position
in his 1825 class?

5. At the outset, Camp Chase,
Columbus, Ohio, named after
Salmon Chase, Secretary of
Treasury, had an oddity
concerning Confederate
prisoners. What was it?

6. Both sides had many
prisoners and many died during
their imprisonment.
True or False?

7. What was known as "Bragg's
Body Guard"?

8. Gen Longstreet settled in
what city in Georgia, dying
there in Jan of 1904?

9. What were the populations
of the Union and the
Confederacy?

10. General Henry Wise, the
ex-governor of Virginia and
Confederate had an oddity
about him. What was it?

11. After the firing on the
"Star of the West" vessel by
Southern forts, the last
Southerner remaining in the
cabinet resigned. Who was he?


12. What is Hayfoot Strawfoot?


13. What did Grant want to be
following graduation from the
point and leaving
the military?

14. Longstreet, although
considered a superior corps
leader, was said to lack
prowess in strategy or
independent command.
True or False?

15. Stonewall had great faith
in religious beliefs. It
therefore follows he
surrounded himself with?

16. Where would the Army place
Lee for his first duty after
graduation?

17. Frederick Douglass, aka
Frederick Bailey, an escaped
slave, has been said to be the
"Father of the Civil Rights
movement," who later held high
posts in the U.S. government,
had an oddity. What was it?


18. The war saw 10,000
battles, skirmishes (brief
encounters) and forays
(raids). True or False?

19. What or who were
"Yellow Hammers"?

20. What is an Arkansas
toothpick?


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