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Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 47
11. Name the four Confederate generals who were mortally wounded at Gettysburg.
12. This combative politician was a native of Virginia, but moved around a lot. He was a lawyer and newspaper editor in Alabama, then did the same in Mississippi where he also served in national and state offices. He visited Texas and wrote a history of that state. He moved to California for a time before returning to Mississippi. He subsequently moved to Tennessee where he was elected to Congress, where he was later voted to be expelled. His next moves were to Canada, London, Washington D.C., and New Orleans. His last move was back to Tennessee where he died. Name him.
13. The 100th __________ Volunteer Infantry had an unusual geometrically flavored nickname. What is the name of the missing Northern state, and what was the nickname, and why did the regiment have that nickname?
14. He was expelled from a military school when he challenged his instructor to a duel over a classroom dispute. He later served under that former instructor, and eventually became the commander of the brigade which was named for that former instructor.
Name this general (not the instructor) and the name of the brigade.
EXTRA CREDIT (one extra point): What very important distinction differed this commander from all the other appointed commanders of the brigade, as an independent unit?
15. This actor, who was the great-grandson of one of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet members, played a Union soldier in a motion picture in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor. Name the actor.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on July 28. Good luck!
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11. Name the four Confederate generals who were mortally wounded at Gettysburg. Semmes, Barksdale, Pender, and Armistead. </B>
12. This combative politician was a native of Virginia, but moved around a lot. He was a lawyer and newspaper editor in Alabama, then did the same in Mississippi where he also served in national and state offices. He visited Texas and wrote a history of that state. He moved to California for a time before returning to Mississippi. He subsequently moved to Tennessee where he was elected to Congress, where he was later voted to be expelled. His next moves were to Canada, London, Washington D.C., and New Orleans. His last move was back to Tennessee where he died. Name him. Henry S. Foote tricky it was Confederate Congress!!!!
13. The 100th __________ Volunteer Infantry had an unusual geometrically flavored nickname. What is the name of the missing Northern state, and what was the nickname, and why did the regiment have that nickname?100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Roundheads.Winfield Scott gave them the nickname because supposedly they were to be like the Roundheads of England. </B> </B> 14. He was expelled from a military school when he challenged his instructor to a duel over a classroom dispute. He later served under that former instructor, and eventually became the commander of the brigade which was named for that former instructor.
Name this general (not the instructor) and the name of the brigade. James A Walker ,Stonewall brigade
EXTRA CREDIT (one extra point): What very important distinction differed this commander from all the other appointed commanders of the brigade, as an independent unit?Walker was only commander of the Stonewall Brigade not killed in the Civil War
15. This actor, who was the great-grandson of one of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet members, played a Union soldier in a motion picture in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor. Name the actor. Actor Montgomery Cliff movie Raintree County Great grandfather Montgomery Blair Lincoln's Post Master General
11. Semmes, Barksdale, Pender and Armistead.
12. Henry Stuart Foote
13. Pennsylvania, Roundheads, name suggested by Winfield Scott for the Cromwellian era victors over the cavaliers. Ironic, since so many of the southern elite compared themselves to the cavaliers and northerners to the roundheads.
14. James A. Walker, Stonewall Brigade, he was the only commander of that brigade to live through the war.
15. Montgomery Clift, great-grandson of Montgomery Blair.
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No players have summited questions, so your stuck with all mine.
Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 47
11. Name the four Confederate generals who were mortally wounded at Gettysburg.
William D. Pender Paul J. Semmes Richard B. Garnett INCORRECT Lewis A. Armisted
12. This combative politician was a native of Virginia, but moved around a lot. He was a lawyer and newspaper editor in Alabama, then did the same in Mississippi where he also served in national and state offices. He visited Texas and wrote a history of that state. He moved to California for a time before returning to Mississippi. He subsequently moved to Tennessee where he was elected to Congress, where he was later voted to be expelled. His next moves were to Canada, London, Washington D.C., and New Orleans. His last move was back to Tennessee where he died. Name him.
Henry S. Foote
13. The 100th __________ Volunteer Infantry had an unusual geometrically flavored nickname. What is the name of the missing Northern state, and what was the nickname, and why did the regiment have that nickname?
Pennsylvania, 'Round Head Regiment’ – it was apparently given this nickname because the men came from Washington, Westmoreland, Beaver, Lawrence, Butler, and Mercer Counties, 'from among the descendants of the Covenanters and of the men who had followed Cromwell, whose leading characteristics had been a devotion to the principles of liberty of person and conscience.'
The ‘Round Head’ terminology being used to invoke a reference to supporters of Parliament during the English Civil War.
14. He was expelled from a military school when he challenged his instructor to a duel over a classroom dispute. He later served under that former instructor, and eventually became the commander of the brigade which was named for that former instructor.
Name this general (not the instructor) and the name of the brigade.
James A. Walker, Stonewall Brigade
EXTRA CREDIT (one extra point): What very important distinction differed this commander from all the other appointed commanders of the brigade, as an independent unit?
In the attack of Hancock’s II (US) Corps all but 200 men of the brigade were killed or were among the 6,080 captured. Johnson, the division commander, and Walker, who was seriously wounded, were among the prisoners. This ended the existence of the brigade [StoneWall Brigdade] as a unit. Its surviving members were consolidated into one regiment. (I think this is what you're looking for, its under his command that it will never be a brigade sized unit again?) INCORRECT
15. This actor, who was the great-grandson of one of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet members, played a Union soldier in a motion picture in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor. Name the actor.
Montgomery Clift
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on July 28. Good luck!
11. Paul Semmes
William Pender
William Barksdale
Lewis Armistead
12.William Gannaway Brownlow INCORRECT
13. The 100th Pennsylvania was nicknamed the "Roundheads." The were named that by General Scott because they were loyal to the U.S. Goverment like the "Roundheads" were loyal to the English Parliment during the English Civil War.
14. James Walker was the student who had a falling out with his instucter. The brigade he would take over from his former instructer was the Stonewall Brigade.
He differed from the other Stonewall Brigade commanders in that he was the only one of them to survive the war.
11. Paul Jones Semmes, Lewis A. Armistead, William Dorsey Pender, William Barksdale
12. Sam Houston INCORRECT
13. 100th Pennsylvania Roundheads, Western Pennsylvania, particularly Mercer and Lawrence counties, had been settled by predominantly Scotch-Irish immigrants, primarily of Presbyterian faith. These were largely descendants of the supporters of the Scottish National Covenant of 1638. They also apparently felt some allegiance to Cromwell and his followers, the Roundheads, so named by the Cavaliers during the English Civil War of 1660. The degree of allegiance of the" Covenanters" to Cromwell is unknown, and also is somewhat suspect.
14. James Walker, Stonewall Brigade, served the longest duration as its commanding officer 363 days
[Texaswildcat PMed me the following as a supplement to the Extra Credit question]
#11 William D. Pender , Paul J . Semmes , Richard B . Garnett , Lewis A . Arimstead INCORRECT
#12 Henry S. Foote
#13 The 100th Pennsylvania , Nickname Roundheads
The regiment was recruited in the southwest counties of Pennsylvania , originally settled by the Roundheads of the English Revolution , when Captain Leasure applied to raise the regiment GeneralScott gave the ok and said "We will call them the Roundheads .
#14 James A . Walker , The Stonewall Brigade
He was the only officer who ever commanded the Stonewall Brigade to survied the war .
11. Lewis Armistead, Richard B. Garnett, William Dorsey Pender, William BarksdaleINCORRECT
12. incorrect INCORRECT
13. Pennsylvania, roundheads “Descendants of those who had followed Cromwell…whose leading charactistics had been a devotion to the principles of liberty of person and of conscience”
14. James Alexander Walker, Stonewall Jackson Brigade He was the last commander, and was captured (at Spotsylvania)INCORRECT (on Extra Credit)
15. Montgomery Clift
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