When I used to play the game, I usually answered early and then had to wait, wait, wait for the next week's questions. Now that I moderate the game, and have to come up with the questions, Saturday seems to come much more swiftly.
Here are the questions for Week 4:
1. It is considered to be the only Civil War battle in which mounted horsemen armed with lances charged the enemy. Give the name of the battle, and the Company and the Regiment which made the charge.
2. This socialite daughter of a high government official was destined to have a storybook marriage to a wealthy senator; instead, financial setbacks, her husband’s problems with alcohol, and a series of alleged infidelities by both husband and wife ensued. The marriage ended in divorce. She became somewhat of a recluse, later reduced to raising chickens, and died in poverty. Name her.
3. In early June, 1861, approximately three dozen men from a Union state were mustered into Confederate service at the ironically named town of Union City, Tennessee. One of the leaders of this group was the brother-in-law of a U.S. congressman who would gain fame as a Union general; he would later desert the Confederates and become an aid on the staff of the brother-in-law. Name the state they were from, the Confederate regiment they would become a part of, and the Union general brother-in-law.
4. At the start of the war, this native New Yorker was commissioned Captain in a U.S. infantry regiment and would attain the rank of Major by war’s end. His step-father was a U.S. senator. He served at Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. Several years after the war he murdered his wife and the daughter of his step-father, but he is best known in connection with another murder. Name him.
5. Three general officers in the Confederate army later served in the U.S. army during a later war at the same rank as the highest confirmed rank they had achieved during the Civil War. All three held the same rank. Name them.
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
1. Hanover Courthouse, Co. C, 6th PA Cavalry (Rush’s Lancers)INCORRECT but .....
2. Katherine Jane “Kate” Chase Sprague
3. Illinois; 15th TN Inf; John A. Logan
4. Henry Rathbone
5. Joseph Wheeler; Fitzhugh Lee; Matthew Calbraith Butler
1.Battle of Valverde , New Mexico Territory - Lancers, Company B of the Fifth Regiment, suffered a greater loss of life than any other company in the Army of New Mexico. Confederate Army Capt Willis S. Lang commanding
2.Kate Chase daughter of Salmon Chase , married William Sprague
3.no answer INCORRECT
4.Henry Rathbone
5. WHEELER, JOSEPH LEE, FITZHUGH ROSSER, THOMAS LAFAYETTE INCORRECT
1. Battle of Valverde. The company doing the charging was Company B of the 5th Regiment of the Army of New Mexico.
2. Kate Chase
3. no answer INCORRECT
4. no answer here, either, though I marvel that a guy who killed the daughter of a U.S. Senator was able to stay out of jail long enough to commit a murder that gained him even more notoriety. INCORRECT
( I have been going back and forth all week on the ‘Rush’s Lancers’ answer. I can find no specific evidence that Company C of the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry made a charge with lances on May 27, 1862 at the Battle of Hanover Court-House. That company did make a “charge on picket line with lances” in what is considered a ‘skirmish’ on May 25th, in the vicinity of Hanover Court-House. Since at least parts of the regiment did “thunder down a road, lances poised, after the retreating enemy” late in the battle on the 27th, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and award the point for that answer.)
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