Here are the answers for Week 2:
1. Benjamin Henry Grierson was afraid of horses because at the age of 8, he was kicked in the head by a horse and seriously injured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Grierson http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/GG/fgr59.html http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/grierson.html http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GRIERSON/2006-08/1156602632 http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/Courses/313_AAW/313_manual_cp_06.htm
More trivia: Grierson may have saved the life of then Commanding General of the US Army, William Sherman, when on a tour of the West, at Fort Sill, in 1871 Grierson shoved aside and disarmed the Indian, Lone Wolf who was pointing a cocked rifle at general Sherman.
2. Joshua W. Sill was killed at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro). The previous evening he had conferred with his chief, General Philip Sheridan, and each mistakenly put on each other’s coat at the end of the conference. Both coats apparently survived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_W._Sill http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?ViewStory=2311 http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/joshua_w_sill.htm http://omp.ohiolink.edu/OMP/NewDetails?oid=900560&scrapid=2246&format=yourscra p&sort=title&searchstatus=0&count=1&hits=1 http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Memoirs-of-General-P-H-Sheridan-v13.html
More trivia: It was Gen. Sheridan who named the fort - where Grierson was in command when Sherman visited - for his friend Joshua Sill.
3. A) Have Gun Will Travel (1957-1963) - Paladin (the only name he went by, tho in my youth I thought his first name was “Wire”) (Richard Boone) A West Point graduate, of undetermined rank, served in the 112th Illinois Regiment.
http://www.tv.com/index.php? type=42&action=get_items_for_tag&qs=paladin http://www.dvdavenue.tv/movie/western/have_gun,_will_travel.html http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0970331002/ref=sib_dp_srch_pop/102-2788863-9795334?v=search-inside&keywords=west+point&go.x=12&go.y=13 (112th)
http://westernamericana.blogspot.com/2005/11/have-gun-will-travel.html B) The Rifleman (1858-1963) - Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) A Lieutenant served in either (all?) the 8th, 11th, and/or 110th Indiana regiments (see 1st link, below)
http://rifleman-branded.com/Indiana_Regiments.htm
(110th IN was organized July 12, 1863, to repel the Morgan Raid. Mustered out July 15, 1863.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifleman http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=416142&date=1178604813& page=prev&view=public&uc=0 http://televisionshowsondvd.blogspot.com/2007/05/rifleman-on-dvd.html
C) Wagon Train (1957-1965) - Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond) Was promoted from Lieutenant to Major at Shiloh by his old friend “Sam” Grant, served in 2nd Illinois (must have been Light Artillery or Cavalry, units of both were engaged at Shiloh), at some point was wounded in the legs.
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/wt/colter-craven.htm
2nd Illinois
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/wt/multimedia.htm (listen to sound clip of Bond and Wayne)
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/wt/major-adams.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=8CAKAHitPXgC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=civil+wa r+%22seth+adams%22&source=web&ots=7ZVJwffr8j&sig=a 93Dl2FjMDQAilE15ZnxYJFJQTE http://books.google.com/books?id=XYCdI-6noyUC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=shiloh+%22seth+adams% 22&source=web&ots=_J44FAgWp9&sig=30Hf-aWF3OiWHFW0GstyBS_1m6w
More trivia: Chuck Connors played 53 games with the Boston Celtics from 1946 thru 1948, played in one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 (pinch hitting, he grounded into a double play in his only at bat), and played first base in 66 games for the Chicago Cubs in 1951; he was better with a rifle than with a big round ball or a bat.
Connors also starred in a short-lived mid ’60’s series “Branded”, in which he played one Jason McCord, a disgraced cavalry officer, the only survivor of a Little Big Horn like battled, who is (literally, in the opening credits) drummed out of the service. This character is very likely based on the real life General Marcus Reno, a veteran of the Civil War, who was the senior surviving officer from Little Big Horn, and who was “branded’ for the rest of his life as a scapegoat, somehow responsible for the failure at LBH.
Richard Boone was a direct descendant of Daniel Boone.
Ward Bond had a small part in the film “Gone With the Wind” as Tom - Yankee Captain.
4. (John or Jesse, or just plain) Durbin Ward
http://www.famousamericans.net/durbinward/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_Ward http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Beers/V/tct/0787_ward_durbin.htm
5. William Wirt Adams(
CSA), and William Wirt Allen(
CSA), and William Wirt Henry(USA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_Adams http://www.researchonline.net/generals/adamsww.htm http://www.civilwarhistory.com/generals/a.htm#wwadams http://www.civilwarhistory.com/generals/a.htm#wwallen http://www.civilwarreference.com/people/bio.php?peopleID=592 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Henry http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=22663&page=gr
More trivia: “ William Wirt” seems to have been a popular name in those times. I also found a William Wirt Woodson (Stonewall Jackson’s half-brother), William Wirt Winegar (another MoH recipient), William Wirt Winchester (of the rifle manufacturing family), William Wirt Dixon (US congressman), William Wirt Watkins (delegate to the Arkansas secession convention and Confederate provisional Congress), William Wirt Calkins (Lieutenant, 104th Illinois Infantry, spent some time in Andersonville prison), William Wirt Reveley (Lieutenant, PACS), William Wirt Harness (a member of McNeill's Rangers, a Confederate partisan group in the Virginia/Maryland area), William Wirt Gilbert (Corporal, 1st Wisconsin Infantry), William Wirt Virgin (Colonel, 23rd Maine), WilliamWirt Kimball (submarine pioneer), William Wirt Wilburn (2nd Virginia Cavalry), …..
Only one perfect score this week, congrats Susan.
Here are the scores at the end of Week 2:
FIRST DIVISION
Susan Sweet - 10
Sarladaise - 9
Rad2duhbone53 - 8
ewc - 0
SECOND DIVISION
Sockknitter - 8
Texaswildcat - 6
Hoosier - 5
Borderruffian - 1
Blockaderunner - 0
See you next week!
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