Trivia Game # 38 - Week 4

[hoosier]

Sorry for being late getting the answers posted this week. Because I’m late, the deadline for appeals will be 6 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 10.

Answers to the questions for Week 4:

16. All those of you who successfully answered question # 2 in Week 1 got this one right as well. The “screaming eagle” patch worn by the 101st bears the likeness of “Old Abe,” the eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin.

17. Sterling Price was the general with the camel.

18. Old Bob was Lincoln’s old horse, which he had left in Springfield when he went to Washington.

19. He was awarded the first Medal of Honor in the Civil War. Parrott, the youngest member of the group of Andrews' Raiders present at the first award ceremony, was the first recipient. Although he was the youngest member of that group, I tend to doubt that he was the youngest among all Civil War Medal of Honor recipients. However, I haven’t had a chance to research that yet. Traveller, if you have a source saying he was the youngest among all, let me know.

20. The information I have says that Henry "Harry" Heth and either John F. Reynolds, John Buford, or Gabriel Paul would fit the question. Armistead, Garnett, and Hancock do not, since they did not meet until July 3. Iverson and Robinson certainly fought each other on July 1, but I don’t have anything that says they served under Johnston in Utah. Ewc, do you have a source that says they did?

Scores at the end of Week 4:

FIRST DIVISION:

SamGrant 24

SECOND DIVISION:

bgl1952 24
Sarladaise 23
Miss Markie 18
Texaswildcat 12
Traveller 9
ewc 8
NBForrest 5

[ewc]

[quote=hoosier]
20. The information I have says that Henry "Harry" Heth and either John F. Reynolds, John Buford, or Gabriel Paul would fit the question. Armistead, Garnett, and Hancock do not, since they did not meet until July 3. Iverson and Robinson certainly fought each other on July 1, but I don’t have anything that says they served under Johnston in Utah. Ewc, do you have a source that says they did?

George- i used as my source a standard sourcebook- Mark Boatner's The Civil War Dictionary, published by the Vintage books civil War Library. Here is the intro (pre-war) sections on both generals:

IVERSON, Alfred. CSA general. 1829-1911. Ga. He left military school to fiht in the Mexican War and then became a lawyer and railroad contractor. Entering the R.A. in 1855, he was a Lt. with the 1st Cav. and served in garrison and on the frontier, in Indian fighting, in the Kansas border disturbances, and in the Utah Expedition. When Ga seceded....

ROBINSON, John Cleveland. Union general. 1817-97. N.Y. A cadet at West Point (ex-1839), he studied law and then joined the R.A. as 2nd Lt. 5th US Inf. in 1839. He fought in the Mexican and Seminole wars and served on the frontier and the Utah expedition against the Mormons. Of this last service he wrote that it was a plot to "denude the eastern states of troops, so that 'a dissolution of the Union' might be easier"...

As AS Johnston commanded the Utah Expedition, these officers would have been under his command.

I matched up the individual engagements on Day 1 at Gettysburg using maps and Order of Battle in Sears' and Trudeau's Gettysburg works. I knew of Robinson's statement, it is outspoken and stands out like a sore thumb, so basically I looked at the brigades which engaged him that day and found Iverson. Hope this helps. ed

[hoosier]

Good research, ewc. You get two points for question 20.

Revised scores at the end of Week 4:

FIRST DIVISION:

SamGrant 24

SECOND DIVISION:

bgl1952 24
Sarladaise 23
Miss Markie 18
Texaswildcat 12
ewc 10
Traveller 9
NBForrest 5