Trivia Game # 49 - Week 4

[samgrant]

Answers to Week 4:


1. Jesse Lee Reno was commissioned Brigadier General as of Nov. 12, 1861, he was killed at South Mountain on Sept. 14. 1862.
- Originally named Fort Pennsylvania, it was built as a defense of Washington D.C., it was renamed Fort Reno in 1863.
- Started as a military camp in Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in 1874, it was designated by Gen. Sheridan in 1876 as Fort Reno.
- In 1865 a fort on the Powder River of Wyoming, originally named Fort Connor, was renamed Fort Reno.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Reno

http://www.famousamericans.net/jesseleereno/

http://www.paulmartinart.com/GenJesseReno.html

http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=108

http://www.nps.gov/archive/rocr/ftcircle/reno.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Reno_(Oklahoma)

http://www.fortreno.org/history.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Reno_(Wyoming)

http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/fortreno.htm



2. 66th Illinois Infantry, Birge’s (Western) Sharpshooters, Squirrel Regiment, 14th Missouri Infantry, Squirrel Tails (and variations thereof). They were recruited as a “sharpshooter” unit. Early in the war they distinguished themselves by wearing hats with 3 squirrel tails attached.

http://nortvoods.net/66illinois.html

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cw66.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/history/066.htm

http://www.michiganinthewar.org/westhist.htm




3. Three. Jefferson Davis (president of the so-called Confederate States) , John Tyler 10th President of the United States (then Confederate congressman), and Sam Houston, two time president of the Republic of Texas.

(This was ewc's question and the above is his answer [with my own editorial comment inserted], and I'm sticking to it, despite the exellent research done by Susan and Hoosier, both of whom get the point.)


4. Stephen Gano Burbridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Burbridge

http://www.bryansbush.com/hub.php?

page=articles&layer=a0607

http://www.famousamericans.net/richardtaylorjacob/


5. . George Bibb Crittenden. 2nd Lt. John Jordan Crittenden, the son of Union general Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, was killed at the famous ‘massacre’. He had lost an eye in a hunting accident some months before the battle, and his glass eye was a means of identification of his body.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Crittenden

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

http://lbha.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=Cavalry&action=display&thread=1138 373778

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6990088

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106905324.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=tTST7UFzncoC&pg=PA82&dq=custer+glass+eye+ crittenden&sig=dtOmal2ogJI4hnbIabiNdTlWjYY

http://books.google.com/books?
id=YJb2wJPM0HMC&pg=PA259&dq=custer+glass+eye+critt enden&sig=56Z6yVP4F32l6iefKYPr5Zwz2Go

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0806136871/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=custer%20glass%2 0eye&p=S07D&checkSum=FmJaXlJp2yVHM6hnnGH07UjO3SFry wOcmgyohm8aJjA%253D

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0806136901/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=custer%20glass%2 0eye&p=S00X&checkSum=FmJaXlJp2yVfjJcaXk7A9FtwceFud n%252Fy0cPNCpF8aho%253D

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0806135077/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=custer%20glass%2 0eye&p=S03N&checkSum=FmJaXlJp2yU2hEkvkfNugF2I80MC3 uKLBEmEB6PE0OU%253D




A tough week, so big Congrats to Susan Sweet on her perfect score!

Please don't wait till the last minute to answer the quiz.



Here are the scores at the end of Week 4:

FIRST DIVISION

Susan Sweet - 19
Sarladaise - 17
Rad2duhbone53 - 15
ewc - 1

SECOND DIVISION

Hoosier - 12
Sockknitter - 9
Texaswildcat - 9
bgl1952 - 3
Borderruffian - 1
Blockaderunner - 0


See you next week!