Trivia Game # 33 - Week 6

[sarladaise]

26. James Shields
27. Taneytown Road
28. Wesley Culp
29. James Henry Lane
30. iron spike with ring driven into the ground to tether a horse

[sockknitter]

26. James Shields


27. Taneytown Road


28. Culp



29. James H. Lane


30. Tethering a horse to a fixed location

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 6.

26. My source indicated that Gen. James Shields commanded the Union forces at the Battle of Kernstown, the only Civil War battle Stonewall Jackson lost. However, several of you named Nathan Kimball, who took charge when Shields was wounded.

I was going to reject the answer of Kimball, since he was a colonel, not a general, at the time of the battle, although he did become a general later in the war. However, when I look at the battle summaries on the Resource Center here at Civil War Talk, I see that our webmaster, Mike, gives Kimball credit for being the principal commander on the Union side.

Never argue with the webmaster. I will give credit for both answers.

27. The Leister house was (and still is) located next to Taneytown Road.

28. Wesley Culp was killed on the land of his own father’s farm during the battle.

29. James H. Lane (the Grim Chieftain) was one of the first pair of U.S. Senators elected from Kansas, which officially became a state during the dying days of the Buchanan Administration in January 1861. Arriving in Washington the day after Fort Sumter, Lane quickly organized a guard to help protect the city until Federal troops could be posted. As a result, Abraham Lincoln granted Lane a commission as a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, giving him the authority to raise troops in Kansas. For a brief time, Lane started doing so, thus serving simultaneously as a senator and as an officer in the U.S. Army, but after his numerous enemies in Kansas pointed out that the Constitution forbade anyone doing so, Lane resigned his Army commission.

30. A picket pin, generally made of iron and a foot or so long, was driven into the ground and linked by rope to a horse’s halter, so that the horse could graze without straying while the troopers were in bivouac.

Congratulations to the winners of Game # 33, CindyScoops for the First Division and SamGrant for the Second Division, both with perfect scores of 36 points. Another game like that and Sam can move up to the First Division.

The scores at the end of Game # 33:

FIRST DIVISION

CindyScoops 36
RaggedRebel 35
Aggie80 16

SECOND DIVISION

SamGrant 36
Robert B. Condon 35
Sarladaise 33
Sockknitter 27
Texaswildcat 26
ewc 22
TinaInWonderland 16
Calicoboy 14
RivrRat 14
Traveller 10
FSPowers 5

[samgrant]

What was the mystery behind the 'last name only' caution on this question?

Was it because, as stories say, that he had a brother on the other side?....etc??? (William?)

What about the 'John' in front of Wesley, that one player listed?

I'm not challenging, but I am curious.

Also, any additional info on the veracity of this disputed story?

[hoosier]

My favorite quiz show is "Jeopardy." On "Jeopardy," sometimes they phrase their clues in such a way that, even though the contestant may not know the answer, they can take an educated guess.

When I composed question # 28, I was thinking along the lines of giving people a chance to take a guess. My thinking was that people might figure that, well, there was a lot of fighting around Culp's Hill, and if somebody named Culp had a hill, maybe he had a farm, too, and that might lead them to guess "Culp" as the correct answer.

Of course, if someone is taking a guess on the last name, there is very little chance that they would guess the first name of Wesley. So, to give the guessers a chance, I asked only for the last name.

And I didn't want to penalize anybody who knew that the last name was Culp but guessed wrong on the first name, so I specified that people could give me both first and last name if they wanted to, but they'd better be careful, because if they gave me the wrong first name, I'd have to mark the answer incorrect.

My source said the soldier's name was Wesley Culp, and all but one of those who gave me a first name also said Wesley Culp.

As you pointed out, John B. said it was John Wesley Culp, but he included a source backing his answer. I will normally give credit for any answer for which the player cites a source, unless I can verify that the source doesn't say what the player thought it did.

John B. indicated that his source was Pfanz' book on Gettysburg. Not only did he indicate which book was his source, he even cited the page numbers.

I don't happen to have a copy of that book, but I'm not conscientious enough to go running out to the bookstore to buy myself a copy in order to verify one player's response. I'm trusting John B. on this one.

Sockknitter sent me a link to an interesting article indicating that Wesley Culp may actually have been killed on his uncle's land, rather than his father's, but my source said he was killed on his father's land, so I accepted all responses that gave Culp as the answer to question # 28.

Sockknitter's article also includes an interesting story about a message Wesley Culp may have been bearing for a resident of the town.

Here's Sockknitter's link to the article.

http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/culpw.htm

[samgrant]

Well I was looking in vain for
'farms' around Gettysburg that fit the story, for ever, but found Culp by chance, but not as a father's farm.
There were farms NW of town and between the lines, but none fit.
If you'd substituted 'hilll' for ' farm' it would make sense.

Cindy's link alludes to the questionof the veracity of this story, as least to the particulars.

[Robert B. Condon]

I just found this but just for the record, the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1961 is located in Gettysburg and is named the John Wesley Culp Memorial Camp.