Trivia Game # 49 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Game #49 - Week 1

Time to start a new game, a great time for new players to join in the fun! Ha!

I’m just going to number each week’s questions 1 thru 5 from now on.


Here are the questions for Week 1:


1. What Major-General submitted a letter of resignation to his Secretary of War on January 31, 1862?

2. Two men are credited with the invention of the standard infantry bullet of the Civil War. Name them.

3. Name 5 Confederate generals who are buried at National Cemeteries.

4. What regiment suffered the greatest loss of any designated artillery regiment in any single action of the war.

5. What Union general’s body was twice left behind by his troops after he was killed in what battle?


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, November 10.

[samgrant]

Question 4:

One of our players has found 4 different regiments which claim the distinction cited in the question. In a matter of minutes I found 2 more.

The question concerned casualties in a single action as opposed to a single battle or single day's fighting. Still it appears that more than one unit still might qualify.

So to mitigate any confusion (and to save me from intensive statistical nitpicking) I will narrow the scope of the question to:

What regiment suffered the greatest loss of any designated artillery regiment in any single action of the war?

sam

[Susan Sweet]

1. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

2. Sometimes called a minie ball, (pronounced "min-ee") the bullet was designed for muzzle-loading rifle-muskets. It was invented by two Frenchmen, Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Claude-Étienne Minié (pronounced "min-ee-ay").

3. Brigadier General, Alpheus Baker Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville CaCave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre Victorian era National Cemetery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Joseph Wheeler Lieutenant General, Confederate States Arlington

Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Arlington

James McQueen McIntosh, Brigadier General Fort Smith Arkansas National Cemetery

Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General Fort Smith Arkansas National Cemetery


4.
The Heaviest of the Heavy: First Maine Heavy Artillery at Petersburg, June 18, 1864.
The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery “. . . sustained [the] greatest loss of any one Regiment in any one action of the war. . . .” A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Frederick H. Dyer.

5. Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's Creek , Missouri Poor Nathaniel . left of the field of battle , then returned to the Union army afterward, then when they pulled out of Springfield Missouri, he was buried in a garden til his body could be recovered later to be taken home to be buried properly .

[sarladaise]

1. Stonewall Jackson
2. Henri Gustave Delvigne, Claude-Etienne Minié
3. Joseph Wheeler, Arlington
Marcus Joseph Wright, Arlington
Richard Caswell Gatlin - Fort Smith Nat. Cem. Arkansas
James McQueen McIntosh - " -
James Edwin Slaughter - US Nat. Cem. Mexico City, Mex.

4. First Maine Heavy Artillery
5. Nathaniel Lyon, Battle Wilson's Creek

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Thomas J. Jackson

2.Henri-Gustave Delvigne And Claude-Etienne Minie'

3.a Joseph Wheeler
b.Marcus Joseph Wright
c.Richard Caswell-Gatlin
d.James McQueen McIntosh (I only found four) Sorry I need 5

4. 1st Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery

5. (Wild Guess) Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's Creek

[Borderruffian]

5. Nathaniel Lyon the Battle of Wilsons Creek

[sockknitter]

1. Thomas J. Jackson
2. Captain Charles Claude Etienne Minié and Henri-Gustave Delvigne
3. Fightin’ Joe Wheeler (Arlington); Marcus Joseph Wright (Arlington); James M. McIntosh (Fort Smith); Richard Caswell Gatlin (Fort Smith); James E. Slaughter (Mexico City National Cemetery)
Albert Rust not buried in Little Rock NC but in adjoining Oakland…a memorial marker is in Little Rock National Cemetery
4. 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
5. Nathaniel Lyon; Wilson’s Creek

[texaswildcat]

1. Thomas Jackson, Stonewall

2. Henri-Gustove Delvigne and Claude Minie


3. Marcus Joseph Wright, Arlington
Joseph Wheeler, Arlington
Seth Barton, Dabney Maury, Abner Perrin, Daniel Ruggles, Henry Sibley and Carter Stevenson, all Shiloh national cemetery INCORRECT - No Reb generals at Shiloh

4. 1st Maine Heavy Artillery at Cold Harbor

5. Nathaniel Lyon, Wilson’s creek

[hoosier]

1. Joseph Jones Reynolds INCORRECT

2. Henri-Gustove Delvigne and Claude-Etienne Minie, who invented what was known as the Minie ball.

3. I could only come up with two: Joseph Wheeler and Marcus Wright Not enough

4. No answer INCORRECT

5. Nathaniel Lyon, killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek

[samgrant]

Answers to Week 1:

1. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?page=1053&dir=005

http://stonewall.hut.ru/campaign/letter.htm

http://www.fullbooks.com/Stonewall-Jackson-And-The-American-Civil4.html


2. Henri-Gustove Delvigne and Claude-Etienne Minié

http://www.rothchildeantiques.com/CivilWarBullets.html

http://www.civilwar.org/historyclassroom/hc_glossary.htm

http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/2007/02/weapons-of-civil-war.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/weapons.htm


3. . Joseph Wheeler and Marcus Joseph Wright are buried at Arlington in Virginia, Richard Caswell Gatlin and James McQueen McIntosh are buried at Fort Smith National Cemetery in Arkansas, and James Edwin Slaughter is buried at the US National Cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.
I was originally looking for these 5. But … on further review I discovered that …
Alpheus Baker is buried at National (Military) portion at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. William Lowther Jackson and William Preston are buried in other sections at Cave Hill. This Cave Hill thing is sort of murky (see sources), but there is a 4 acre portion of Cave Hill designated as a National Cemetery, within the confines of the larger Cave Hill Cemetery, mostly a private cemetery. So Baker is accepted, but Jackson and Preston are not.

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles_new/display.cfm?NationId=65

http://www.criticalhistory.info/html/arlington_cemetery.html

http://www.abmc.gov/wardead/listings/civil_war.php

http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous...es+E+Slaughter

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cachevMD5T-JdekJ:www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php%3Fpage%3Dcem%26FScemeteryid%3D53922+mci ntosh+gatlin+%22fort+smith+national+cemetery%22&hl =en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Hill_Cemetery

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1864/cavehillcs.htm



4. First Maine Heavy Artillery, at Petersburg, they lost heavily at Spotsylvania as well.

http://www.cwoodcock.com/firstmaine/Nrecap.html

http://mainemilitia.com/node/169

http://www.americancivilwar.org.uk/news_13-october-2007-maine-heavy-artillery-regimentscolorado-volunteers-in-new-mexico_126.htm

http://maineheavies.blogspot.com/2006/05/dedication-of-first-maine-monument-and.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/foxschapter1.htm


5. Nathaniel Lyon - Wilson’s Creek

http://www.nps.gov/wicr/faqs.htm

http://users.aol.com/CintiCWRT/wilsons.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/deathoflyon.htm

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Knapp/knapp.asp

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles_new/display.cfm?NationId=66



All the S's scored perfect scores this week - Girl Power rockin the Trivia Game!


Here are the scores at the end of Week 1;

FIRST DIVISION

Susan Sweet - 5
Sarladaise - 5
Rad2duhbone53 - 4
ewc - 0

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 5
Texaswildcat - 4
Hoosier - 2
Borderruffian - 1
Blockaderunner - 0