• There was actually another speaker at Gettysburg Cemetery the day that Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln spoke for 2 minutes; the other man spoke for 2 hours.
• Sockdolager" - (def.) one who strikes a heavy blow
• Walt Whitman believed baseball could relieve nervousness and dyspepsia.
• During the Civil War, gonorrhea was treated with ink.
• "Green apple quickstep" was a 1860s slang term for diarrhea.
• The word "deadline" is said to have originated in the line that marked the perimeter of the POW camp in Andersonville. Any prisoner crossing that line would risk being shot. The usage was then adapted to mean the time limit to complete a job at the risk of being shot if that limit was crossed.
• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was wounded 10 separate times during the Civil War
• General George Pickett became an insurance salesman after the war.
• Gallaudet University began the tradition of the football huddle in the 1890s, in order to conceal their signed plays from the opposing team.

Earlier:
Dramaturgical Remainders (Part I)
Dramaturgical Remainders (Part II)