Trivia Game # 34 - Week 3

[rivrrat]

11. Brig. Gen Elon J. Farnsworth

12. The Secret Service Bureau

13. To allow the removal of wounded Union Soldiers, who were threatened by brush fires which had been started by the heavy during the fighting.

14. John C. Freemont

15. Brig Gen Felix H. Robertson

[sockknitter]

11. Farnsworth

12. Secret Service

13. Burial of the dead INCORRECT

14. John C. Fremont
15. Felix Huston Robertson

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 3:

11. The commander of the 1st Vermont Cavalry and the leader of the charge was Elon Farnsworth.

12. Norris headed the Confederate Secret Service Bureau.

13. Martin called the truce so that Union wounded lying between the lines could be moved out of the way of an advancing brush fire. (No, Robert B., they’re not telling me what you’re reading, but I’m glad to know your source corroborates mine.)

14. The dissidents nominated the same man who had been the Republican candidate in 1856, John C. Fremont. Fremont withdrew his candidacy in September and supported Lincoln.

15. The last surviving Confederate general was Felix Huston Robertson, who died 4/20/1928. Robertson, born in 1839, would have been a member of the West Point graduating class of June, 1861, but resigned prior to graduation to join the Confederacy.

Halfway through Game # 34, we still have five players with perfect scores.

The scores at the end of Week 3:

FIRST DIVISION

CindyScoops 18
RaggedRebel 18

SECOND DIVISION

Bill_Torrens 18
Robert B. Condon 18
SamGrant 18
Traveller 17
Sockknitter 16
Texaswildcat 15
FSPowers 14
RivrRat 12
ewc 11
Sarladaise 6