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[civilwartalk]

Ami, my wife, has started a new weekly questionare, so please visit the Campfire Chat Message Board when you get a free moment, or visit directly using this link:

http://civilwartalk.com/cwt_main/bbs...html?993260632

I wanted to say thanks for all the input on the Trivia Game scoring issue. For now I'm going to keep it simple, 1 question, 1 point. Except maybe Sundays, where I might ask a two point question. My wife and I discussed a few other options, and maybe in the future we can take a look at them too.

Here is today's question:

What general referred to his wife as "Mrs. Brown" (though his name wasn't Brown)?

You have till tomorrow morning to answer this question. Here are the scores after the last question:

9 SgtAbj *
8 BelleTraveler *
7 RaggedRebel *
7 Crowbar *
3 Gwagner *
2 ConnYankee

* Answered Yesterday's Question Correctly...

[raggedrebel]

General Richard S. Ewell

Raggedrebel

[sgtabj]

Richard S. Ewell

[connyankee]

Richard Stoddert Ewell

[belletraveler]

The answer is Richard S. Ewell.

Belle

[civilwartalk]

What was "Little Dixie"?

Because it's Sunday, this question is worth 2 points.

You have till tomorrow morning to answer this question. Here are the scores after the last question:

10 SgtAbj *
09 BelleTraveler *
08 RaggedRebel *
07 Crowbar
03 Gwagner
03 ConnYankee *

* Answered Yesterday's Question Correctly...
** Sorry Crow, sorry ConnYankee, I guess I was asleep this morning when I first did the scoring. All fixed now.

[belletraveler]

"Little Dixie" was the Southern portion of Missouri which remained loyal to the Confederacy.

Belle

[sgtabj]

In general, "Little Dixie" was an area in Missouri that was loyal to the Confederacy and is still considered by some to be very "Southern". Located in the Missouri Valley heartland, the exact boundaries don't seem to be too clear. Six counties are recognized as the "heart" of "Little Dixie", while seven others are considered as "outer Little Dixie". At one time or another eleven other counties were considered to be a part of "Little Dixie".

LITTLE DIXIE It's the heart of Missouri, blooded of three, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It's a tall spare man on a blue-grass hoss. It's sugar-cured ham without raisin sauce. It's coon dog, coon, persimmon tree. It's son or brother named Robert E. Lee. It's tiger stalking a jay-hawk bird. It's the best hog-calling that ever you heard. It's fiddler fiddlin' you out of your seat, Fiddler fiddlin' you off your feet. It's bluebird singing in a hawthorn thicket. It's vote to a man the Democratic ticket. It's crisp brown cracklin's and hot corn pone. It's catfish fried clean off the bone. It's hominy grits and none of your scrapple. It's mellow pawpaws and the Jonathan apple. It's sorghum sweetenin' and belly-warming corn. It's old Jeff Davis a-blowin' on his horn. Unreconstructed it rares and bites At touch of a rein that would curb its rights. It's come in, stranger, draw up a chair; There ain't no hurry and we'll all get there.


Little Dixie refers to the area in Missouri which "culturally there can be but one opinion: Little Dixie is of the very essence of the Old South - 'more Dixie than Dixie.' Throughout The War Between the States its sympathies and more were with the Confederacy; and to this day it remains spiritually 'unreconstructed.' Its speech, its customs, [and] its leisurely gait are southern." (Trombly, p. ix) Though there is little doubt what is Little Dixie and the origin of its name, there is considerable confusion about the geographical locality. Most agree the term "Little Dixie" originated on the political scene during or shortly after The War Between the States. Few agree to the boundaries of Little Dixie.

[gwagner]

A seven county area along the Missouri River