QA 1
Update: new choices added!
According to "The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's Watch and many more Mysteries of America's Past" by Barb Karg (John Wiley & Sons, inc., 2008),
"Which Confederate general traveled with an unusual hen that each morning left a single egg under his cot?"
Was it:
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
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