Small Talk-Trivia

Mounted

By Stephen Davis · Originally published December 2019 · pp. 43–46

Horse 1. King Philip 2. Duke 3. Little Sorrel 4. Jeff Davis 5. Jerry 6. Skylark 7. Traveler 8. Rienzi 9. Black Bess 10. Cincinnati

Rider a. James E.B. Stuart. b. Ulysses S. Grant. c. Nathan B. Forrest.

Match the horse with its rider d. Robert E. Lee. e. William T. Sherman. f. Philip H. Sheridan. g. Thomas J. Jackson. h. John B. Hood. i. John H. Morgan. j. Leonidas Polk.

Answers found on page 46. Stephen Davis, our Book Review Editor, asks if there’s a book out there that’s a Federal counterpart to J. D. R. Hawkins’ work, cited on page 46. What was McClellan’s favorite horse? Lincoln’s? (Jeff Davis’ was Kentucky.) You may e-mail Steve at [email protected].

Small Talk Trivia Answers 1. c. Forrest. “…the General’s own favorite charger, King Philip….” (Robert Selph Henry, “First With the Most” Forrest [1944], 230). 2. e. Sherman. “I sent you a few days ago some photographs, [in] one of which Duke was very fine. He stood like a gentleman for his portrait….” (Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, eds., Sherman’s Civil War [1999], 728). 3. g. Jackson. “Jackson spotted a small sorrel horse….he kept it for his war horse—the famous ‘Little Sorrel.’” (Frank Vandiver, Mighty Stonewall [1957], 142). 4. h. Hood. “I had a favorite roan horse…‘Jeff Davis.’” (Hood, Advance and Retreat [1880], 64). 5. j. Polk. “…one led ‘Jerry,’ a strawberry roan with black legs….” (Joseph H. Parks, General Leonidas Polk: The Fighting Bishop [1962], 383). 6. a. Stuart. “Stuart was constantly in the saddle, riding Skylark, a Maryland-bred sorrel horse” (J.D.R. Hawkins, Horses in Gray: Famous Confederate War Horses [2017], 93). 7. d. Lee. “From the Gettysburg-Cashtown Road, he pushed Traveler up Seminary Ridge….” (Clifford Dowdey, Lee [1965], 375). 8. f. Sheridan. “Captain Archibald P. Campbell…presented me with the black horse called Rienzi….” (Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan [1888], vol.1, 177). 9. i. Morgan. “The women swooped around his horse, Black Bess, clipping locks of hair from her mane….” (James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan [1986], 62-63). 10. b. Grant. “…Grant mounted his powerful bay horse Cincinnati….” (Ron Chernow, Grant [2017], 375).