Trivia Game # 43 - Week 2

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 43.

6. In response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” what similarly-titled book, portraying slavery as a necessary and benevolent institution, was written by J. W. Page?

7. Who was the first Union general to die in combat?

8. When a Confederate cavalryman’s mount was killed or wounded, what did he receive from the Confederate army?

9. The buttons on a Union brigadier general’s regulation coat were arranged in two columns, with each column consisting of four sets of two buttons each. How were the buttons on a Union major general’s regulation coat arranged?

10. (Two point question) What 1864 Civil War military campaign was started as a result of concerns about the possibility that French Emperor Napoleon III might do something in North America?

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, November 18.

Good luck!

[Calicoboy]

6. In response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” what similarly-titled book, portraying slavery as a necessary and benevolent institution, was written by J. W. Page?

In 1853 Page wrote "Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia and Tom Without One in Boston"

7. Who was the first Union general to die in combat?

Nathaniel Lyon was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10th, 1861

8. When a Confederate cavalryman’s mount was killed or wounded, what did he receive from the Confederate army?

Nothing, he became an infantry man until he could capture, steal or beg another mount

9. The buttons on a Union brigadier general’s regulation coat were arranged in two columns, with each column consisting of four sets of two buttons each. How were the buttons on a Union major general’s regulation coat arranged?

Two rows of three sets of three

10. (Two point question) What 1864 Civil War military campaign was started as a result of concerns about the possibility that French Emperor Napoleon III might do something in North America?

Napolean had a puppet on the Mexican throne named Maximillian. They both were sympathetic to the Southern cause. Just after Lee's surrender Phil Sheridan was sent to the Mexican border with some 50,000 troops to show the French the U.S. was not kidding about the Monroe Doctrine INCORRECT

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, November 18.

Good luck![/quote]

[Rad2duhbone53]

6. Uncle Robin in his cabin in Virginia and Tom without one in Boston

7.Nathaniel Lyon

8. 60 day notice to replace his mount or be transferred to an infantry

9. Two columns, each with three sets of three buttons each

10.Red River Campaign

[Miss Markie]

Thanks for the welcome back! School matters take priority this time of year, so I am rather hit and miss in my visits here.

6. The "Anti-Tom" book is Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia and Tom Without One in Boston by J. W. Page

7. General Nathanial Lyon

8.This was tricky as a few things could be said. Number one is he received reimbursement from the government as long as the mount was killed or wounded in action.Southern cavalrymen supplied their own mounts, so they received this reimbursemnt. ( I could add more, but I don't want to get in trouble in the 'one answer' rule.)

9.Two rows, 6 on a side in groups of THREE (two groups of three on a side for a total of 12)

10. The Red River Campaign. (After Napoleon III landed in Puebla, and made clear he would like to take over Mexico, the logical thought is he might throw his weight behind the CSA, seeing as how the French textile trade was in shambles due to lack of cotton).

[hoosier]

It has been called to my attention that the answer to question 8 isn't as clear-cut as I thought it was. The answer may vary according to whether the horse was killed in action or otherwise, whether the wounded horse was permanently disabled or not, whether the cavalryman was a volunteer or conscripted, and various legal interpretations of Confederate Law. There is also a question as to whether it should be considered what a cavalryman should have received vs. what he actually did receive.

Therefore, you may, if you wish, disregard question # 8. If you want to try to submit an answer, go ahead. But don't knock yourself out. Everybody who participates in the game this week will get credit for a correct answer to # 8.

My apologies to those who have already agonized more than you should have had to over this question.

[samgrant]

6. Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston

to read this, click:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/proslav/pagehp.html

7. Nathaniel Lyon

8. At first I thought this would be a 'no brainer' as I had recently read something about this somewhere (Trudeau's Petersburg book?), and a quick search for 'confederate cavalry' gave me a Wikipedia source stating:

"Confederate soldiers owned their horses and were compensated on a monthly basis. If a soldier's horse was sick, injured, or killed, the soldier was responsible for returning home and replacing the horse at his own expense. The general rule was that the soldier had 60 days to return with a new horse or he was forced to become an infantryman, considered to be an ignominious fate."

- which was pretty much what I had read previously, "horse furlough". So this apparently was the conventional wisdom on the matter.

So I was about to reply as such, but thought I'd like to get a source other than Wikipedia. Here's where the 'no brainer' turned into 'hair puller'.

At Shotgun's CW site, I found this in an section titled "Cavalry of the Civil War, Its Evolution and Influence:

"On the other hand, two causes contributed steadily to diminish the numbers and efficiency of the Confederate cavalry. The Government committed the fatal error of allowing the men to own their horses, paying them a per diem for their use, and the muster valuation in cases where they were killed in action; but giving no compensation for horses lost by any other casualties of a campaign ..."

Uhoh, an exception to the conventional wisdom!

Now I must look for Confederate Cavalry/Army/Military regulations, somehow.

Off to the 'Journals of the Confederate Congress', where I found this:

(The 7th Section of Act of Congress, No. 48, March 6th, 1861, provides that "For horses killed in action, volunteers shall be allowed compensation according to their appraised value at the date of muster into service.")

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That whenever the militia or volunteers are called and received into the service of the Confederate States, under the provisions of this act, they shall have the same organization, and shall have the same pay and allowances as may be provided for the regular army; and all mounted non-commissioned officers, privates, musicians and artificers, shall be allowed forty cents per day for the use and risk of their horses; and if any volunteer shall not keep himself provided with a serviceable horse, such volunteer shall serve on foot. For horses killed in action, volunteers shall be allowed compensation according to their appraised value at the date of muster into service.


!!!! Now there is the issue of "volunteers"!

Here's where I stopped pulling hair and PM'ed Hoosier

(pardon for the long answer (all of the above?), but I need to vent for the time and frustration)

9. each column having 3 sets of 3

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10. Red River campaign

[subace914]

Originally Posted by hoosier

Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 43.

6. In response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” what similarly-titled book, portraying slavery as a necessary and benevolent institution, was written by J. W. Page?

7. Who was the first Union general to die in combat?

8. When a Confederate cavalryman’s mount was killed or wounded, what did he receive from the Confederate army?

9. The buttons on a Union brigadier general’s regulation coat were arranged in two columns, with each column consisting of four sets of two buttons each. How were the buttons on a Union major general’s regulation coat arranged?

10. (Two point question) What 1864 Civil War military campaign was started as a result of concerns about the possibility that French Emperor Napoleon III might do something in North America?

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, November 18.

Good luck!

Answer #10: the Red River Campaign

[Miss Markie]

Thanks Hoosier! I had about three things to write but was worried by the 'one answer only rule" ( which I think is a good idea) so I only wrote one thing.

Anyway, still having fun hunting these things down.

[texaswildcat]

6. Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston

7. Nathaniel Lyon

8. Disregarded

9. For a major general a pattern of nine buttons were worn placed by threes


10. 4th Red River Campaign

[ewc]

6- Page's work- Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom without One in Boston. Unlike Stowe's classic, this one didn't stand the test of time;

7- General Nathaniel Lyon;

8- Dang- tough one- all I've ever known on this is that the sadly horseless trooper was permitted 60 days to return home (or whereever he liked) to procure another mount, or God help him! be booted over to the infantry!!;

9- Set of 3 buttons each side;

10- Banks' ignominious Red River Campaign.