Trivia Game # 45 - Week 2

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 45.

6. What term was used to describe the opening in a fortification whose sides flared outward to allow artillery to command an extent of the surrounding country?

7. What general and brother-in-law of Mary Todd Lincoln was mortally wounded at Chickamauga?

8. How did Kentucky-born CSA General Adam Johnson acquire the nickname “Stovepipe?”

9. What Federal installation in Georgia, seized in January 1861 only five days after the state seceded, became a major supplier of materiel and ammunition for the Confederacy?

10. (Two point question) What Union general, captured by partisan rangers in 1865, was the highest-ranking Union officer captured during the war?

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, March 3.

Good luck!

[hoosier]

I have been asked for a clarification on question 6, to wit, whether the sides flared outward on the interior or the exterior of the fortification.

I don't know. I have two sources for the term. One mentions the sides flaring outward, but does not specify whether they flared outward on the interior or the exterior. The other one doesn't mention the sides flaring at all.

So, the clarification on question 6 is - forget about the sides flaring. Just give me a term relating to an opening in a fortification that allowed artillery to command the surrounding country. If you have knowledge that there is one term relating to such an opening with the sides flared outward on the interior and a different term relating to such an opening with the sides flared outward on the exterior, then please give me both terms, with a source to back each.

I have also been asked for a clarification on question 10, by two players who believe that the highest-ranking Union officer to be captured was taken sometime other than in 1865.

I am not going to change question 10. My sources say the highest-ranking Union officer to be captured was taken in 1865. If you have a source that says otherwise, please include your source with your answer, and please be sure your source specifies the rank the officer held at the time of his capture.

[Rad2duhbone53]

6. Embrasure

7. Gen. Ben Helm

8. With 12 men and two stovepipes joined together and mounted on a wagon carriage to simulate a cannon, he captured a town.

9. US arsenal at Augusta Georgia

10. Gen. George Stoneman in 1864

[samgrant]

6. Embrasure

7. Benjamin Hardin Helm

8. In July 1862, he captured the town of Newburgh, Indiana, despite a sizable Union militia presence, with only twelve men and two joints of stovepipe mounted on the running gear of an abandoned wagon to simulate a
cannon

9. U.S. arsenal at Augusta

10. George Crook (must be the one you are expecting)

[hoosier]

My original source indicated that there was only one correct answer to the question “Who was the highest-ranking Union officer captured during the war?” It further indicated that the officer in question was captured during 1865.

However, one of our players has come up with a source indicating that there was another Union officer captured in an earlier year, and this other officer was of equal rank to the man captured in 1865.

Therefore, there are at least two correct answers to question 10. I will give credit for any answer that names either one of them.

I will not require that everyone include a source with their answer to question 10, but you should be prepared to supply one, in case your answer doesn’t match either of the two correct answers I know about so far.

[hoosier]

I’ve received numerous private messages in regard to question 10. The opinion has been expressed that my attempts to clarify that question have served only to create more confusion, causing players to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out an answer for that question.

Well, I don’t want to put people to that much trouble.

Question 10 is hereby thrown out. Anyone who posts in this thread this week will automatically receive two points for that question.

[sarladaise]

6. embrasures

7. Benjamin Hardin Helm

8. In July 1862 he captured the town of Newburgh, Indiana with 12 men and 2 joints of stovepipe mounted on a wagon to simulate a cannon. His men nicknamed him "Stovepipe"

9. Augusta Arsenal

10. void

[ewc]

6- Embrasure;

7- CSA BG Benjamin Hardin Helm;

8- Adam Rankin Johnson received his moniker of 'Stovepipe' as recognition of his feat of capturing Newburgh, Indiana in July '62 while commanding 12 men of his Texas Partisan Rangers from a sizable Union garrison deceiving them with 'cannon' which turned out to be sections of stovepipe mounted on the axels of an abandoned wagon. Audacity accomplished much in the Civil War.

9- United States Arsenal at Augusta GA;

10- Highest ranking- Maj Genl (apt- 4 July '62) William Buel Franklin, captured July '64 by Early. In '65, partisan rangers captured Maj Genl (Appt 21 Oct '64) George Crook. These MG appointments were in the Volunteer Service. General Crook went on become a highly renowned Indian fighter in the West and attained the rank of Major General in the Regular Army- a superior rank. So of US officers captured in the Civil War, Genl Crook would be the one who attained the highest rank.

[texaswildcat]

6. Embrasure

7. Ben Hardin Helm

8. He fitted two pieces of stovepipe to the carriage of a wagon to make it appear as a cannon in Indiana

9. Augusta

10. George Stoneman

[sockknitter]

Oh, I believe I qualify for the dunce cap this week. I have fallen out of the habit of answering the quiz in a timely manner so here are some hasty submissions.

1. embrasure
2. Benjamin Hardin Helm

+ 2 POINTS FOR THE FIFTH QUESTION

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 2.

6. The opening was called an embrasure.

7. Mary Todd Lincoln’s brother-in-law, CSA General Benjamin Hardin Helm, met his fate at Chickamauga.

8. Johnson, with a band of only 12 men, fashioned a fake cannon made of a wagon and pieces of stovepipe and rolled it toward the Union garrison at Newburg, IN. The much larger Union force was frightened into giving up without a fight.

9. The Augusta Arsenal was seized five days after Georgia seceded.

10. I heartily regret having asked this question, and regret even more having added the information about being captured by partisan rangers, which was intended to be helpful but, considering how badly flawed the question was to begin with, apparently served only to confuse.

My source indicated that Maj. Gen. George Crook was the highest-ranking Union officer captured during the war. Crook, commander of the Department of Western Virginia, was captured by partisan rangers led by Jesse McNeill in March 1865. I posted the question under the entirely false impression that Crook was the only Union major general captured during the war. Our players have come up with information that at least two other Union major generals, William Franklin and George Stoneman, were captured during the war. As noted in an earlier post, anyone who entered a post into this thread this week got two points, whether they answered Crook, Franklin, Stoneman, or made no answer at all.

The scores at the end of Week 2:

FIRST DIVISION

SamGrant 12
Sarladaise 12

SECOND DIVISION

ewc 12
Rad2duhbone53 12
Texaswildcat 11
20thMass 6
Ole 6
Sockknitter 4