CivilWarTalk Daily Trivia Questions

Jefferson Davis said repeatedly that the South was fighting for the same “sacred right of self-government” that the revolutionary fathers had fought for. In his first message to Congress after the fall of Sumter, Davis proclaimed that the Confederacy would “seek no conquest…” and what else?

                                              Three slave states and three free states bordered Kentucky . Kentucky was the birthplace of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Precisely because Kentucky was so evenly divided in sentiment and geography, its people were reluctant to choose sides. A month after Lincoln’s call for troops what resolution did the Kentucky legislature [...]

Governor Jackson and Sterling Price on one side, meet with Nathaniel Lyon and Francis Blair to try to resolve the violent situation in Missouri. Jackson and Price offer to disband their regiments and prevent Confederate troops from entering Missouri if Blair and Lyon would do the same with respect to Union regiments. How does this [...]

He was born 17 April 1813 largely believed in Meridien, Connecticut. He graduated from West Point first in the class of 1837 and was posted to the engineers as a second lieutenant. He was brevetted for his action during the war with Mexico and promoted to captain on 24 May 1848. When the Civil War [...]