I plan to continue the trivia game at least through the full six weeks of Game # 46. After that, a decision will have to be made as to whether or not to continue.
Here are the questions for Week 4 of Game # 46.
16. What claim to fame is held by John Huff of the 5th Michigan Cavalry?
17. What color flags were used to mark Confederate field hospital locations?
18. What Confederate fort at Drewry’s Bluff kept Federal warships from coming up the James River and attacking Richmond?
19. Duckport Canal, Lake Providence, Yazoo Pass, and Steele’s Bayou were all names of unsuccessful Union expeditions aimed at capturing what city?
20. (Two point question) Last Chance Gulch, the site of a gold discovery which helped to reinforce the Federal treasury in 1863, is located within the confines of what present-day Western state capital?
Answers to the questions for Week 4 will be due by 6 PM EDT Saturday, May 5.
17. Red (This question was somewhat ambiguous as to the definition of a "field hospital", but I do have enough documentation to make the case between red or yellow.) UNDER CONSIDERATION
18. Fort Darling (Another ambiguous question. It might depend on who you ask. It is generally known as Fort Darling. Tho Fort Drewry might be an all too obvious answer, it was, in fact, called Fort Drewry by the Confederates:
"From the Richmond Whig, 8/1/1862, p. 2, c. 1
FORT DREWRY. – We wonder why the Yankees invariably refer to the fortification on James river, below Richmond, as “Fort Darling.” The proper name is “Fort Drewry,” so called in compliment to the commander of one of the artillery companies stationed at the bluff when the Yankee gunboats were repulsed. If the Yankees persist in “falsifying history” by giving the wrong name to a place which they have cause to remember, we trust the press of the Confederate States when they speak of the locality in question will give it its right name."
Contrary to the opinion of the Richmond Whig, however, it is the victors that get to write the history, and the Federals called it Fort Darling, as a 5 to 1 google response might indicate.)
19. Vicksburg
20. Helena, Montana
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16- 5th Michigan's Sgt Huff is credited with firing the shot that wounded Genl Jeb Stuart mortally at Yellow Tavern;
17- Hospital flag- yellow;
18- Drewry's bluff- Fort Darling;
19- Attempts to capture Vicksburg;
20- Last Chance Gulch- Helena, Montana.
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