random fact game

[Kayla]

Arlington was the home of General Lee and the Union started burying bodies in the yard so that he could never return to his home for a peaceful life after the war.

[John81]

General Lee said he would have fought to the death if he had realized how brutally the Yankees would treat the South after surrender.

[Kayla]

It's true. I definitely would have been a confederate supporter had I been alive in that time period. I am definitely a state's rights supporter.

[John81]

We are in the same company!

[Kayla]

We are kindred.

[John81]

Twice!

[Kayla]

I wish I was in dixie.

[John81]

You are! Missouri is a part of Dixie!!!

[Kayla]

Although I live in North Missouri, I live in one of the Confederate supporting part of the state.

[John81]

The movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales" shows some of the true horrors put forth against Missouri by Redlegs from Kansas.

[Kayla]

I will have to check that out.

[John81]

The Outlaw Josie Wales is considered a classic and you've never seen it?

Beware that in the unedited version there is a very quick shot of a girl getting her dress ripped open later in the film. I didn't know that until just a couple of years ago when I saw the movie on VHS. Prior to that I had only seen the edited versions on TV.

[tired]

Approximately 2,000 men served in the 26th North Carolina Regiment during the course of the Civil War. With Lee?s surrender at the Appomattox courthouse, there were only 131 men left to receive their paroles.

[John81]

North Carolina gave more to the Confederacy than any other State.

[Kayla]

Quesadilla Pizza isn't that bad.