Trivia Game # 50 - Week 2

[Susan Sweet]

1. First Alabama Cavalry United States Volunteers
2. James Holt Clanton
3. Nathaniel Banks INCORRECT
4. The Bear River Massacre. US Soldiers attacked the Shoshones on Jan 29th 1863, resulting in the deaths of more the 250 Shoshone men, women and children and 14 soldiers based at Fort Douglas (camp Douglas). The attack near Preston, Idaho, at the confluence of Bear River and Beaver Creek, is considered the largest single incident massacre of Indians in American West. It occured during the Civil War.
5. William "Billy" Mahone at the Battle of the Crater , Petersburg . INCORRECT

[sockknitter]

1. 1st Alabama Cavalry USV
2. James Holt Clanton
3. Winfield Scott Hancock INCORRECT
4. Bear River (Idaho)
5. Alfred Iverson Jr., Sunshine Church

[samgrant]

I got the feeling that players were having some trouble with this week's questions when only 2 responses came back by Thursday. I think this is the first time since Week 1 of Game 47, that there were no perfect scores. That week, there was one question that no one could answer correctly (Hot Springs). This week, there was at least one correct answer for each question. Well, Week 3 should be a bit easier .... we'll see!


Here are the answers for Week 2 of game #50:


1. 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV


History of the 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV - Alabama's Union Civil War Unit

Monroe's Crossroads - First Alabama Cavalry, USV

1st Alabama Cavalry

1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment

Throwing down the Guantlet: A Union regiment called the 1st Alabama Cav.

http://www.swannco.net/1st_Ala_Cav/battles.html

(My trivia: Another 1st cousin 4 times removed, was “temporarily attached” to this regiment for some, yet undetermined, time.)



2. James Holt Clanton


Civil War High Commands - Google Book Search

Clanton AL Attractions- Clanton Alabama Things To Do- Lay Lake

HOMICIDE IN KNOXVILLE.; Gen. James H. Clanton, a Leading Alabama Democ... - Article Preview - The New York Times

Picture History : "General James H. Clanton, C.S.A."

Generals in Gray: Lives of the ... - Google Book Search

James Holt Clanton (1827 - 1871) - Find A Grave Memorial


3. At Hancock, Maryland in January, 1862, Brigadier General Frederick West Lander replied to then colonel, Turner Ashby, who had been sent across the Potomac to request Lander’s surrender, with the threat that the town would be bombarded: “Colonel Ashby, give my compliments to General Jackson and tell him to bombard and be d***ed. If he opens his batteries on this town, he will injure more of his friends than he will of the enemy, for this is a d***ed secesh place, anyhow.”


Battle of Hancock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

IMPORTANT FROM THE UPPER POTOMAC.; The Rebels Shelling the Town of Han... - Article Preview - The New York Times

The Black Knight

cwla - CWSAC Report: MD001 Battle Summaries File

The Civil War Battlefield Guide - Google Book Search

Army of the Potomac: McClellan Takes ... - Google Book Search



4. Battle of Bear River (Idaho)


Battle Summary: Bear River, ID

http://www.idahohistory.net/Reference%20Series/0235.pdf

American Civil War Idaho Map of Battles

Patrick Edward Connor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

cwla - Chronology - Calendar Frame

The Battle of Bear River

Bear River (Massacre at Boa Ogoi )

TheHistoryNet | American Indian Wars | Patrick Connor and the Battle of Bear River



5. Alfred Iverson Jr., Battle of Sunshine Church (Hillsborough)


The Stoneman Raid; The Battle of King's Tanyard (Barrow County) - Georgia Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government

http://www.rocemabra.com/~roger/tagg...general56.html

140th New York

Sunshine Church II Marker

Alfred Iverson, Jr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short ... - Google Book Search

SOUTHERN NEWS.; A REVIEW OF MILITARY OPERATIONS. The Rebels Anxious fo... - Article Preview - The New York Times

The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour - Google Book Search

Sherpa Guides | Georgia | Civil War | Griswoldville Clinton area

Griswoldville - Google Book Search

http://georgiabattlefields.org/pdf_f...BAnews0407.pdf
Griswoldville - Google Book Search

Amazon Online Reader : The Generals of Gettysburg: The Leaders of America's Greatest Battle ( see page 295-6)



A big Welcome to a brand new player, Gay Mathis, who showed promise by tying for high score this week. We lost Aggie80 (temporarily, I hope), but welcome back to bgl1952.


Here are the scores after Week 2:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 9
Susan Sweet - 7
Rad2duhbone53 - 7
Aggie80 - 4

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 9
Hoosier - 7
Borderruffian - 4
Gay Mathis - 4

See you next week!