Q 01/05

Which part of Stonewall Jackson, amputated in 1863, lies buried under its own granite marker?

A) His right leg

B) His left foot

C) His left arm

D) His right hand

Answer · why

C) His left arm

His left arm was amputated after he was shot and buried by his chaplain at Ellwood Manor, far from his grave. A former staff officer put up the marker...

Q 02/05

Until 2000, Virginia combined its Lee–Jackson Day holiday with a day honoring which civil rights leader?

A) Martin Luther King

B) Frederick Douglass

C) Mary McLeod Bethune

D) Thurgood Marshall

Answer · why

A) Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was fused with the Confederate holiday as Lee–Jackson–King Day until a governor split them in 2000. Virginia dropped Lee–Ja...

Q 03/05

How was Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded as he rode back toward camp after dark in May 1863?

A) Hit by a Union sniper

B) Shot by his own troops

C) Thrown from his horse

D) Struck by a shell burst

Answer · why

B) Shot by his own troops

Shot by his own troops, Jackson was hit three times when North Carolina sentries mistook his party for Union horsemen. The bullet's caliber later conf...

Q 04/05

Which fruit is Stonewall Jackson famously said to have sucked on during campaigns, supposedly to ease indigestion?

A) Plums

B) Quinces

C) Persimmons

D) Lemons

Answer · why

D) Lemons

Lemons are the legend, spread by a fellow general's memoir, but his biographer found no such obsession. Jackson simply loved fruit, peaches above all.

Q 05/05

Stonewall Jackson's dying words, about crossing a river to rest in the shade, gave which novelist a 1950 book title?

A) William Faulkner

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) John Steinbeck

D) Robert Penn Warren

Answer · why

B) Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway borrowed them for Across the River and into the Trees, whose dying colonel recites Jackson's words to his driver.