Q 01/05

Robert E. Lee bought which gray warhorse in 1862 and rode him for the rest of the Civil War?

A) Traveller

B) Cincinnati

C) Little Sorrel

D) Old Baldy

Answer · why

A) Traveller

Traveller cost Lee $200 and had first been called Jeff Davis. Admirers pulled so many souvenir hairs from his tail that Lee said he looked like a pluc...

Q 02/05

After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee opposed building which things, saying they would keep the war's wounds open?

A) Veterans' hospitals

B) Confederate monuments

C) Schools for freed people

D) Military academies

Answer · why

B) Confederate monuments

Confederate monuments, Lee argued, would only stop the wounds of the war from healing, so he declined to back them. Statues of him went up across the ...

Q 03/05

Although a full Confederate general, Robert E. Lee wore only the three stars of which lower rank?

A) Captain

B) Major

C) Colonel

D) Lieutenant

Answer · why

C) Colonel

Colonel was his last rank in the United States Army, and Lee kept its three stars all through the war. He meant to put on a general's insignia only on...

Q 04/05

The only coffin saved from an 1870 flood was too short for Robert E. Lee, so he was buried without what?

A) His sword

B) His uniform

C) His medals

D) His shoes

Answer · why

D) His shoes

His shoes had to be left off because the one coffin recovered from the river was a little too short for him. Two local boys had found it washed ashore...

Q 05/05

Which US president signed the resolution restoring Robert E. Lee's citizenship more than a century after his death?

A) Jimmy Carter

B) Richard Nixon

C) Gerald Ford

D) Dwight Eisenhower

Answer · why

C) Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford signed it in 1975, after an archivist found Lee's long-lost oath of allegiance among State Department records. Lee had sworn the oath in 1...