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He borrowed the uniform from Maj. General Alfred Pleasanton. He was wearing the uniform 4 days later when he was killed in it on July 3rd at Gettysburg.
Take care.......Skirmish
General Pleasanton
Lt. Col. Jonathan Lockwood
Lee's pet hen
Brig. Gen. James J. Archer
Longstreet: "The devil you wouldn't! I would like very much to have missed it....!"
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
His reply was "The devil you wouldn't! I would like to have missed it very much; we've attacked and been repulsed."
General Pleasanton
It was a hen.
His reply was"The devil you wouldn't,I would have liked to have missed it very much..."
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Mary Curtis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, was captured by U.S. forces at her estate in Arlington. What general allowed her to travel to Richmond and return to her husband?
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Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
If I am not wrong (again) this was a hen, e.g., female type chicken for you city boy types.
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
George Brinton McClellan.
Something to the effect, "The hell you wouldn't. I would have if I had had the opportunity."
George Brinton McClellan..{he decided Mrs.Lee outnumberd his troops{G>}
Me thinks it was George McClellan, because he was top dog in the AOP at the time; but that didn't stop the gallant Union soldiers from vandalizing and wrecking the house she lived in, called White House, on the Pamunkey River, handed down from Martha Washington. Lil Mac was, at least, a gentleman.
RR
Mrs Mary Custis Lee. She was sent through the Yankee lines early in the war by either McDowell or McClellan, both gentlemen. I can't for the life of me now remember which. Aargh! so I will have to guess. I will guess McClellan, even though she was probably captured early on, like in mid '61, when McDowell was still in charge.
'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
-Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC.
19: At Gettysburg on July 3rd, this Lt. Colonel, who commanded the 7th West Virginia captured his own nephew, who had been wounded leading part of the 7th Virginia during the climax of the Confederate assault on Cemetery Ridge. Name the Union Lt. Colonel. Lieut. Colonel Jonathan H. Lockwood.
20: As the two armies at Gettysburg stared at each other across the bloody battlefield on July 4th, 1863, a bit of a flap occured in General Lee's camp. It seems a pet of Lees managed to get lost. Instead of pushing ahead and getting his army back on the move, Lee ordered that his pet be found, and after a short time it was. What kind of animal was this pet? A hen.
21: Who was the first General of Robert E. Lee's to be captured by the Union army? Brig. Gen. James J. Archer.
22: After the failure of Pickett's Charge, and as Confederate troops began to return to Seminary Ridge, Lt. General James Longstreet had a conversation with British observer Lt Colonel Freemantle. Freemantle started the exchange with: "I wouldn't have missed this for anything". What was Longstreet's reply? "The devil you wouldn't! I would like to have missed it very much; we've attacked and been repulsed."
23: When Union cavalryman Elon Farnsworth was unexpectedly promoted to Brigadier General, who did he need to borrow a uniform from? Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
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I've scored all the Holiday Weekend questions, if you have questions about the scoring you can email me. I know I keep putting it off, I'll try to post the scores tonight so everyone can see how well they are doingI need to get an assistant trivia helper!
Yesterday's Question: Mary Curtis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, was captured by U.S. forces at her estate in Arlington. What general allowed her to travel to Richmond and return to her husband? George Brinton McClellan
Here is Today's Question, Worth One Point:
What is the claim to fame of Confederate Col. Robert M. Martin?
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In retalliation for the Burning of Atlanta, Confederate Col. Robert M. Martin was given permission by Confederate Secret Service to burn New york City with Greek Fire
Planed the New York City Fires
Confederate Col. Robert M. Martin of Kentucky obtained permission from Confederate Secret Service headquarters to ignite all the city's hotels with "Greek Fire", a highly flammable substance, in hopes of causing a general conflagration. A chemist furnished the eight Confederate agents involved in the plot with a sizable supply of the substance, but none had experience using the mixture. The raiders, toting 402 bottles of Greek Fire, checked into various hotels and set to work. Rubbish and clothing were set afire, but they did not burn as expected, and the fires were extinguished by midnight. A spectacular blaze was set at Barnum's Museum, however. Miraculously, not one of the 2,500 people gathered there for a lecture was injured.
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