Trivia Game # 45 - Week 2

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Here are the answers to the questions for Week 2.

6. The opening was called an embrasure.

7. Mary Todd Lincoln’s brother-in-law, CSA General Benjamin Hardin Helm, met his fate at Chickamauga.

8. Johnson, with a band of only 12 men, fashioned a fake cannon made of a wagon and pieces of stovepipe and rolled it toward the Union garrison at Newburg, IN. The much larger Union force was frightened into giving up without a fight.

9. The Augusta Arsenal was seized five days after Georgia seceded.

10. I heartily regret having asked this question, and regret even more having added the information about being captured by partisan rangers, which was intended to be helpful but, considering how badly flawed the question was to begin with, apparently served only to confuse.

My source indicated that Maj. Gen. George Crook was the highest-ranking Union officer captured during the war. Crook, commander of the Department of Western Virginia, was captured by partisan rangers led by Jesse McNeill in March 1865. I posted the question under the entirely false impression that Crook was the only Union major general captured during the war. Our players have come up with information that at least two other Union major generals, William Franklin and George Stoneman, were captured during the war. As noted in an earlier post, anyone who entered a post into this thread this week got two points, whether they answered Crook, Franklin, Stoneman, or made no answer at all.

The scores at the end of Week 2:

FIRST DIVISION

SamGrant 12
Sarladaise 12

SECOND DIVISION

ewc 12
Rad2duhbone53 12
Texaswildcat 11
20thMass 6
Ole 6
Sockknitter 4