The general has a new horse; faster, bigger, more powerful, hopefully as reliable, so the game will resume on Saturday, October 20. Kind of short on time, so I hope I can put together some decent questions by then.
sam
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Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
It’s been a difficult week. Getting used to the Vista OS has been a pain. When my computer crashed, I lost lots of good stuff, including some questions that players had suggested. Thanks to ewc for resending his questions. Please feel free to help by PM-ing your own ideas for questions.
Here are the questions for Week 5:
21. The battle flag of the 13th VA Infantry now resides in the Confederate Museum in Richmond. Whose wedding dress went to make this flag? Both her older brother and her husband were Confederate generals. Name also both the brother and the husband.
(contributed by ewc).
22. Give the name of someone who shot Nathan Bedford Forrest, and describe Forrest’s reaction to being shot by that person.
23. During the siege of Vicksburg, the Confederates held the high ground and were able to shoot down at or lob explosives down on the Union soldiers, almost with impunity. Though the heights could be reached by the mortar boats of Admiral Porter from the river side, they were too high and steep on the land side to be attacked by Union cannon, and having not anticipated a siege, the Union troops had few mortars. What improvisation was made by the Union forces in order to deal with this disadvantage? (Hint: the answer does not involve ’mining’.)
24. As a youth, this Civil War general, in 1831, fled from his home with his family during the Nat Turner slave uprising. Give 3 nicknames by which the general was known.
25. While a student at Virginia Military Institute, he was infamous for his pranks and misbehavior. A veteran of the Mexican War, he became involved in the stage coach express and the telegraph businesses. Commissioned a Major, was involved in the Seven Days Battles. Serving variously as a Confederate agent and blockade runner, he at one point bought the home of a former US president. He was arrested in connection with the assassination of Lincoln, founded a town named after himself, and died from the aftermath of a dinner at Willard’s Hotel. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (Eastern) on Saturday, October 27.
Good luck!
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"It was a very peculiar time." - Franklin D. Cossitt
Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
21. Dolly Hill made a battle flag for her husband A. P. Hill, Her brother was John Hunt Morgan
22. Andrew Wills Gould who then was stabbed by Forrest with a pen knife killing Gould.
23. Trench mortars were improvised by shrinking iron bands around tree trunks and hollowing them out to accommodate 6 or 12 pound (2.7 or 5.4 kilogram) shells
24.George Thomas was called Slow Trot, The Rock of Chickamauga and The Sledge of Nashville .
21- Kitty Morgan Hill, wife of the 13th's original commander- Lt Genl APHill and sister of raider Brig genl John Hunt Morgan;
22- A subordinate resenting an infraction to his honor, IIRC, commanding a skiff crossing a stream and not pitching in with the rowing, Lt Gould, had the effrontery and lack of a survival mechanism to shoot Forrest during an interview to address his 'tainted' honor (the bane of well heeled Southrons), forrest was decidedly unhappy with this turn of events, pulled his pocket knife, opened it with his teeth, and skewered young, soon to be late, Lt Gould http://ehistory.osu.edu/World/PeopleView.cfm?PID=32;
23- From a source siting Badeau's Military History of US Grant - http://ehistory.osu.edu/World/PeopleView.cfm?PID=32, basically that sharpshooters kept rebel heads down, advance guards protected the entrenchments, gabions and fascines fashioned from locally available sources, and mortars fashioned of staves with iron hoops shrunken over them;
24- Union Major General George Henry Thomas, known as 'Slow Trot' for his manner of riding his horse (and not so respectfully by some other generals due to his desire to have all in order to advance, unlike say Genl Forrest), 'Pap' by his worshipful men, and 'The Rock of Chickamauga;'
25- The amazing/ incorrigible/ indefatiguable Benjamin Franklin Ficklin. Why had I never before heard of this remarkable man? Great question, samgrant. [Thanks for that feedback. I try to find unusual, not well known, stuff to ask about, but sometimes it seems everybody already knows about it. Tho it may be that I give too many clues. I think I cut back on clues.]
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
21. Kitty Morgan McClung Hill; John Hunt Morgan A.P. Hill
22. Andrew Wills Gould [sorry, long version but it’s interesting IMHO] Forrest drew his pen-knife and skewered Gould. “[Forrest] was hit in the abdomen, which during the period of the Civil War was almost always ultimately fatal. You might linger for several days but any puncture of the abdomen meant a guaranteed case of peritonitis would set in, especially in warm weather. Men who were hit in this way knew that they were going to die.” “Forrest's self~examination showed this kind of wound. He rose from the chair and bellowed, "Get out of my way! I am mortally wounded and will kill the man who has shot me!" The General, his clothing in disarray hobbled into the street and took two pistols from his gaping troopers, heading for the crowd that had gathered at the tailor shop [where Gould lay on a cutting table undergoing medical attention]. Forrest struggled up the front steps of the building, waving the pistols and shouting, "Lookout! Lookout!" The crowd dropped to the floor at the sight of the furious, gun~waving General. Even Doctor Wilkes jumped out of the way. Gould was fading fast but he saw Forrest come in the door and he rolled off the table and went out the back as Forrest sent a bullet after him. The bullet hit a brick wall and ricocheted into the leg of a gawking soldier. Gould, now at the edge of consciousness, retreated only a short way before he fainted from the loss of blood and fell into the high weeds behind the row of buildings. Forrest staggered up to him and pushed at him with the toe of his boot, realizing that Gould was done for.”
23. Shrinking iron bands around hollowed tree trunks to use as trench mortars
24.George Henry Thomas.: “Rock of Chickamauga”, “The Sledge of Nashville”, “Slow Trot Thomas”
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