Trivia Game # 44 - Week 4

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 4 of Game # 44.

16. Which enacted the first military draft in American history – the Federal government or the Confederate government?

17. What Union general had a plan to bypass Confederate forts along the James River by digging a canal?

18. What Tennessee railroad town, briefly the site of Braxton Bragg’s headquarters, bore (and still bears) an Indian name meaning “mud?”

19. As a reward for his work to help Lincoln get elected, future Union Gen. Carl Schurz was given what post?

20. (Two point question) Who named himself governor of the Confederate Territory of Arizona in August 1861?


Answers to the questions for Week 4 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, February 3.

Good luck!

[samgrant]

16. Confederates (1862)

17. Benjamin Butler (canal was completed in 1871)

18. I expect Tullahoma to be the answer (tho several sources say that it is Choctaw for "red dirt", and also that it came instead from the Greek language. Since the question is almost identical with one, in one of Webb Garrison's CW trivia books, I'll guess that is the answer you are looking for.)

19. Ambassador to Spain

20. John Robert Baylor

[Rad2duhbone53]

16. The first was the Confederate Government

17. General Benjamin Butler

18. Tullahoma

19. He was given the post of Minister to Spain

20. Lt. Colonel John R. Baylor

[20thMass]

16. The Federal goverment was the first to enact the military draft in American history. INCORRECT

17. General Benjamin Butler

18. Tullahoma

19. U.S. Ambassador to Spain

20. John Robert Baylor

[rivrrat]

16. Confederate
17. Gen. Benjamin Butler.
18. Tillahoma, although one Union Officer said the name came from two Greek words Tulla meaning mud and Homa meaning more mud.
19. U. S. Envoy to to Spain
20 Lt. Col. John R Baylor

[texaswildcat]

16. Confederate

17. General Benjamin Butler

18. Tullahoma

19. Ambassador to Spain

20. Lt. Col. John Baylor

[sarladaise]

16. Confederate government
17. Benjamin Butler
18. Tullahoma
19. US Minister to Spain
20. John Robert Baylor

[Miss Markie]

16. The Confederate Conscription Act of 1862 was the first ever military draft in American history.
17.Benjamin Butler's troops began the Dutch Gap Canal in 1864.
18. Tullahoma, TN, the home of my husband's favorite sippin' whiskey, George Dickel.
19. Carl Shurz was appointed envoy to Spain. He lived here in our state of Wisconsin, in Watertown, where the first US kindergarten was held.
20. John Robert Baylor


(Had to type this before the internet completely freezes up in our part of the lower 48!! )

[sockknitter]

16. The Confederacy
17. Benjamin F. Butler
18. Tullahoma
19. Ambassador to Spain
20. John Baylor

Two days ago i visited the new Texas Civil War Museum in Fort Worth. It has Spoons's coat, sash, hat and boots. The coat surprised me with its svelteness. Please excuse blatant plug but the museum is a fine place.

[ewc]

16- Twasn't very long at all before the Confeddies felt the bite of the manpower crunch- enacting a Congressional Act of Conscription 16 April, '62 predating the Union's national draft by almost a full year;

17- USA General Ben Butler's Dutch Gap Canal project, keeping him and his men busy and out of trouble;

18- Tullahoma, Tennessee;

19- Carl Schurz was appointed Minister to Spain before returning stateside to take a more direct hand in the conflict;

20- The Texan Col John Baylor, having led a mob of his Texicans on a 'buffalo hunt' west from Ft Bliss- in reality to secure the Arizona Territory to the Confederacy.