SOLARTOYS MILITARY TRIVIA THE CIVIL WAR PAGE 18 |
Index at bottom of the page. 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? |