I thought perhaps you history buffs might like to try a little quiz on book 3, A Time to Kill, and A Time to Heal. Which events in my book are true, and which are fictional?

1. Accounting of the additional terms for restored citizenship required of paroled Confederate soldiers, officers, and officials, and the readmission of southern states following forfeiture of statehood
2. Lynch mob intent on hanging a horse thief disbanded by Robert E. Lee, President of Washington College
3. The subject of history was taught at the Virginia Military Institute
4. Cavalry training offered at VMI during post-war years
5. Public opposition to the American Missionary Association’s freedmen’s school in Lexington
6. Incident of gunman at AMA schoolhouse
7. The ice-skating incident on the river involving a teacher at AMA freedmen’s school
8. Incident of Washington College students involvement in attack of black man attending meeting at freedmen’s school
9. Consideration of Lee as the Democratic presidential candidate in the election of 1868
10. Fire destroyed VMI stables
11. Diphtheria epidemic in Lexington in late 1868
12. Spiritual revival among VMI cadets in early 1869
13. Local judge’s son shot by black youth
14. Incident in Winchester, VA re: black child run down and killed by white warehouse worker, Federal troops called
15. Robert Madison was Lee’s personal physician
16. Devastating flooding of the North River (later renamed Maury) in November 1870
17. Northern lights were seen in Lexington on the nights prior to Lee’s death
18. Lee was buried in a reclaimed casket, too short for his height, without his boots.

Answers: (1) T; (2) T; (3) F; (4) F; (5) T; (6) F; (7) T; (8) T; (9) T; (10) T; (11) F; (12) T; (13) T; (14) F; (15) T; (16) T; (17) T; (18) T

How did you do?

How did you do?