# Civil War trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955 "2000-12-17T00:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/1 "2000-12-17T00:05:32Z")
I enlisted as a private. Within a year I was a General. I was the most feared General by the “other side”. One General even put a price on my head. Who am I? ---
**Author:** ![suziek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@suziek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suziek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/2 "2000-12-17T00:13:11Z")
Was it Custer? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/3 "2000-12-17T00:14:24Z")
No. Good guess though. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/4 "2000-12-17T00:17:21Z")
I was a calvary officer. I had no formal military training. I led my men from the front, not from the rear. I had several horses shot out from under me. ---
**Author:** ![hardhead365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@hardhead365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardhead365)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/5 "2000-12-17T00:21:37Z")
**Nathan Bedford Forrest** ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/6 "2000-12-17T00:29:14Z")
Well done hardhead! The man was a genius at strategy. Next question… In which battle did a US General hide out in a pig sty? ---
**Author:** ![hardhead365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@hardhead365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardhead365)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/7 "2000-12-17T00:30:43Z")
First day of Gettysburg ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/8 "2000-12-17T00:35:31Z")
You are too good…Actually he spent all three days… Next question… Only one one many was tried…convicted…and sentenced for war crimes after the civil war. Who was he? His crime? His sentence? ---
**Author:** ![hardhead365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@hardhead365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardhead365)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/9 "2000-12-17T00:38:43Z")
Don’t remember the name, but it was a Gemanic name. He was the commandant of Andersonville and he was executed ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/10 "2000-12-17T00:44:14Z")
The General in the sty was Alexander Schimmelfennig. Hard to get one by you! His name was Henry Wirz. You are correct on the others. Next question. Grant’s wife, Julia Dent, had a cousin who was a CSA General. Name him. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/11 "2000-12-17T00:50:17Z")
Anyone else please feel free to join in. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/12 "2000-12-17T01:01:20Z")
Longstreet, but this thread is turning into a MPSIMS quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/13 "2000-12-17T01:07:29Z")
sam…why is history mindless and pointless? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/14 "2000-12-17T01:09:27Z")
Because you are asking questions you already knoiw the answer to. Now, off the MPSIMS with you!!! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/15 "2000-12-17T01:09:46Z")
Because you know the answers to the questions you are posting. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/16 "2000-12-17T01:11:28Z")
AH! My first simulpost. **Fear** Was it as good for you as it was for me? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/17 "2000-12-17T01:12:19Z")
So many virgins. So little time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/18 "2000-12-17T01:16:28Z")
**Reeder** - While I’m always interested in history, and especially the Civil War, this thread really is in the wrong place. I’m gonna go ahead and move this over to MPSIMS- General Questions is a place for questions you _don’t_ know the answer to. (Now, _my_ trivia question- which Confederate General, and which Union General, had the most horses shot out from under them during the course of the war?) ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/19 "2000-12-17T01:26:21Z")
Confederate was the hypocondrical Stonewall Jackson ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955/20 "2000-12-17T01:36:23Z")
Sorry, Odie- 'twasn’t him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-war-trivia/45955.md?page=2)