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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3252574, member: 591"] Answers - 1 - The Duke of Wellington, indeed. Ed plus 2 2 - Ozi and SVC correctly get Fort Necessity. Fort Nonsense is in Morristown, NJ, site of one of the Continental Army winter encampments. Supposedly, Washington ordered it built as "make work" but I recently saw that this part is probably not true. 3 - Winfield Scott, "Old Fuss and Feathers". Game has additional details. 4 - STUMPED YA - Samuel Cooper had the 1st commission as a full general, and served as Adjutant General and Inspector General of the CSA. Previous to the war, he was Adjutant General of the US Army. The other 4 commissioned were AS Johnston (as Ed mentions), Lee, JE Johnston and PGT Beauregard. For trivia buffs - Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith were later appointed full Generals, the only 7 of that rank. 5 - War of the Rebellion, as Game says 6 - You all got the essential difference in naming; congrats to all 7 - Ed is close. The USV (US Volunteers) rank was the temporary for the duration; USA was the much coveted regular army rank where folks slowly progressed up the ladder over years. For example, Custer, known as a Colonel at Little Big Horn was a Brig. General (USV) during the war. Brevet was "honorary", for example, Winfield Scott (mentioned above) was a Brevet Lieutenant General, entitled to the title and respect. 8 - Game and Ozi have this - Burnside (1862-1863), Hooker (1863) and Meade (1863-1865). Pope led troops from the Army of the Potomac (mostly) to disaster at 2nd Bull Run - but they were constituted as a separate army, the Army of Virginia. 9 - STUMPED YA #2 - Gerald R Ford signed the bill returning citizenship to Lee; his documentation was lost (possibly not accidentally) when he applied after the war. 10 - John Sedgwick proved that they couldn't hit an elephant, but could hit a Major General. Ed got it. 11 - Stonewall Jackson - per Ed and Game 12 - Ed and Big know he was Hiram Ulysses Grant. The Simpson came later. 13 - 15, the WWI trio that most of you knew - Ferdinand Foch who led the allies, Henri Phillip Petain, who later led Vichy France and Paul von Hindenberg, President of Germany. [/QUOTE]

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