A word of caution for all players before I post the questions for Week 4: please be mindful of Rule 7, the multiple-answer rule. Unless the question clearly asks for more than one answer, you should assume that I think there is only one correct answer. If you believe there’s more than one correct answer, please remember to include a source backing up each of your answers. If a response includes multiple answers without sources for each, I will mark it wrong unless I am able to verify each of your answers quickly and easily on my own.
The questions for Week 4:
16. How much per month were Union chaplains paid?
17. What Supreme Court justice advised the U.S. government against prosecuting Jefferson F. Davis after the war?
18. Where did General Grant set up headquarters for the assault on Missionary Ridge?
19. Who actually wrote Lee’s “Lost Order” (# 191) of 9 September 1862? (Hint - the answer is not Robert E. Lee.)
20. (Two point question) What Tennessee general was known as “The Lion of Ben Lomond?”
Answers to the questions for Week 4 will be due by 6 PM EST on Saturday, March 25.
16. A chaplain had to be a regularly ordained minister of a Christian denomination and received the pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry.
According to the pay scale at Battery B a
Captain of Cavalry was entitled to be paid $70 a month - 4 rations daily with a commuted value of $36 - $8 per month for a horse (allowed 2) – and 1 servant, at $24.50 a month for a total monthly pay possibility of $146.50
17. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase.
18. Orchard Knob
19. R. H. Chilton, Assistant Adjutant General, by command of General R. E. Lee
20. General Benjamin Jefferson Hill
__________________ Mark W. Swarthout, Esq.
GGGrandson of Pvt. John W. Swarthout, Company E, 148th NYVI - Wounded at Cold Harbor.
GGGGrandson of Pvt. Henry Stephens, Company D, 137th NYVI - Wounded at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg.
When I posted this question, I was under the impression that all chaplains were paid the same amount throughout the entire Civil War.
It has been called to my attention that this was not true. There were variations in the pay scale depending on whether the chaplain was army or navy, whether he was white or black, a regimental, post, or hospital chaplain, a chaplain in the regular army as opposed to the volunteers, whether the year was 1864-65 or earlier, and maybe other variations I haven't even heard about yet.
For those who respond to question 16 after I make this post, give me a dollar amount for the monthly pay of any type of chaplain. If you can cite a source supporting the figure you give me, you will get credit for your answer. If you can't cite a source, take a guess, and I'll give you credit if your answer is anywhere between the highest and lowest dollar amounts supported by any source cited by any of the other players.
For those who have responded prior to my making this post - that's Texaswildcat, SamGrant, and Aggie80 - your answers are already acceptable, so you needn't make any additional posts regarding question 16.
A Civil War Treasury, Albert A. Nofi, chapter 1865/Army Life:
“In May of 1861 the Confederacy set the pay for chaplains at $85.00 a month, but reduced it to $50.00 two weeks later…Union chaplains got a much better deal, being treated as officers and getting $100.00 a month…unless they were black, in which case they [sic] treated as enlisted men and subject to the same fiscal inequities…”
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