Trivia Game # 35 - Week 5

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 5 of Game # 35.

21. The 4th Alabama suffered heavy casualties at 1st Bull Run (1st Manassas) when they unfurled their Confederate colors while approaching a gray-clad regiment – which turned out to be the 2nd Wisconsin. What colonel was the commander of the 2nd Wisconsin?

22. Who was the oldest Union general to participate in the Battle of Gettysburg?

23. Courier Sgt. G. W. Tucker reported the death of what Confederate general to Robert E. Lee?

24. Many applicants for Civil War military service were turned down because they lacked the requisite six opposing upper and lower front teeth. Why was the lack of teeth considered grounds for rejection?

25. (Two point question) Union brevet major Alonzo Cushing was killed at the Angle at Gettysburg on 7/3/63 while commanding Battery A of the 4th U. S. Artillery in the face of Pickett’s Charge. Cushing is buried at West Point. What epitaph is on his tombstone?

Answers to the questions for Week 5 will be due by 6 PM on Saturday, December 10.

Good luck!

[samgrant]

21. William T. Sherman

22. George Sears Greene

23. A. P. Hill

24. Because those teeth were needed to bite off the end of powder cartridges used with the Muzzle loading guns.

25. "Faithful until Death"

[tarheel]

21) Lt. Col. H W Peck

22) Brig. Gen. George Sears "Old Pop" Greene

23) Lt. Gen. A P Hill

24) They had to have teeth to bite the paper ends off the cartridges when loading muskets.

25) "Faithful Unto Death"

[Robert B. Condon]

Clarification request on question 21.

Are you looking for the colonel who commanded the brigade of which the 2nd was part or the commander of the regiment?

[hoosier]

Sorry for the ambiguity. I was looking for the colonel of the brigade of which the 2nd Wisconsin was a part.

My moderator's board shows that SamGrant and Tarheel are the only two people who have responded to this question to date. One of them gave me the name of the colonel of the brigade and the other gave me the name of the colonel of the regiment. I will count both of their responses as correct, since they were responding to an ambiguous question.

Now that the ambiguity is cleared up, all future responses will have to cite the name of the colonel of the brigade to receive credit.

[Robert B. Condon]

21. William Tecumseh Sherman

22. George Sears Greene

23. Ambrose Powell Hill

24. They were considered necessary to bite off the end of the powder cartidge used with muzzle-loading rifles.

25. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

[texaswildcat]

1. William Techumseh Sherman

2. Nathaniel Greene INCORRECT

3. A.P Hill

4. in order to bite through the paper of a cartridge round

5. "Faithful until Death"

[cindyscoops]

21.
" I was looking for the colonel of the brigade of which the 2nd Wisconsin was a part. "

Col. William T. Sherman, Thirteenth U.S. Infantry,
commanding Third Brigade, First Division.

(The brigade is composed of the Thirteenth New York Volunteers, Colonel Quinby; Sixty-ninth New York, Colonel Cameron; New York Seventy-ninth, Second Wisconsin, Lieutenant-Colonel Peck, and Company E, Third Artillery, under command of Capt. R.B. Ayres, Fifth Artillery.)

http://www.secondwi.com/fromthefront...om_bull_run.ht

http://www.civilwarhome.com/sher1man.htm

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-g...e-bull-run.htm



22. George Sears Greene

23. A.P. Hill

24. Teeth were needed to tear open cartridges.

25. "Faithful Unto Death."


(#21 was some painful trivia since I didn't check back here until final posting).
Cindy "Company Q" Scoops

[bill_torrens]

21. William T. Sherman

22. George Sears Greene

23. A.P.Hill

24. They couldn't bite open cartridges

25. "Faithful Unto Death".

[raggedrebel]

21) W.T. Sherman was col. of the brigade.
22) George S. "Pappy" Greene (b. 6 May 1801)
23) A. P. Hill
24) To bite and tear open powder bags (paper cartridges).
25) "Faithful Unto death"
RR