Trivia Game # 50 - Week 5

[samgrant]

Game #50 - Week 5

Here are the questions for Week 5:

1. He entered the army as a 1st Sergeant in 1861 shortly after Fort Sumter, by September of that year he was a Brigadier General. Sometimes credited for composing a familiar bugle call, he also served as chief of staff for the same general both in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Cumberland. Post-war he was involved in a financial scandal during the Grant administration. Name him.

2. This Confederate veteran was responsible for the creation of a monument to Union soldiers on an island in Massachusetts. Name him.

3. This war profiteering scandal involved a man who would one day be the one of the wealthiest in the US, a former US presidential candidate, and several thousand breach loading firearms. What was the scandal called?

4. This regiment marched four hundred miles in thirteen days (at one stretch covering 92 miles in 36 hours) to reinforce a threatened fort. Give two nicknames by which the regiment was known.

5. This New England native became surgeon general of the army, and later secretary of state. A Mexican War veteran, he was wounded in the arm at Shiloh leading a Company he had raised. He was later promoted to the rank of Colonel and led a regiment at Vicksburg. Post-war he was involved in higher education and wrote a history about his adopted state. Name him.


Answers are due by 6:00pm (eastern) on Saturday, February 2.


Good luck!

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[Susan Sweet]

1.Daniel Butterfield

2.Charles Strahan, Co. B. 21st Virginia Reg.

3.Hall Carbine Affair


4.the 1st Colorado Volunteers were called Pike's Peakers or Gilpin's Pet Lambs

5.Ashbel Smith

[samgrant]

Rad2duhbone53 PM this question:

Your latest trivia; does the scandal in question 3 derive from the breach loading firearms? or does this scandal precede the firearms?



My answer:

I would not want to attempt to apply any sort of timeline to the question.


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[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Daniel Adams Butterfield

2.Charles T. Strahan

3. "The Great Winnebago" INCORRECT

4."Pike's Peakers"/ "Gilpin's Pet lambs"

5. Ashbel Smith

[sarladaise]

1. Daniel Butterfield

2. Charles Strahan, Co. B. 21st Va. Reg.

3. The Hall Carbine Affair

4. Gilpin's Pet Lambs, Pikes Peakers

5. Ashbel Smith (what an extraordinary life he had!)

[Gay Mathis]

1. Daniel Adams Butterfield
2. Charles Strahan
3. Hall Carbine Affair
4. Pikes Peakers or Gilpin's Pet Lambs
5. Ashbel Smith
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Gay

[sockknitter]

1. Daniel Butterfield
2. Charles Strahan
3. The Hall Carbine Affair
4. Gilpin’s Pet Lambs; Pike’s Peakers
5. Ashbel Smith

[hoosier]

1. Daniel Butterfield

2. Charles T. Strahan

3. no answer INCORRECT

4. the Flat Feet and the Aching Bunions INCORRECT

5. Elihu Benjamin Washburne INCORRECT

[Blockaderunner]

1) Daniel Adams Butterfield

2) ? INCORRECT

3) Savage Gun Scandal INCORRECT

4) Gilpins Pet Lambs or The Lambs INCOMPLETE

5) Charles H Crane INCORRECT

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 5:


1. Daniel Butterfield

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

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

http://www.multied.com/bio/UGENS/USAButterfield.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_friday.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/Black_Friday_1869

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154800/

http://www.medalofhonor.com/DanielButterfield.htm


2. Charles Strahan

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4500620/Peacemaking-long-after-last-shot.html

http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!342465!0#focus

http://flickr.com/photos/tracylee/766153394/

http://www.insidecapecod.com/main-marthasvineyard7.htm

http://www.bestreadguide.com/marthasvineyard/wtoakblf.html


3. The Hall Carbine Affair

http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/789740...son_index.html

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/ad...=4&subcatID=33

http://www.growingmoneyblog.com/archives/790

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,170,00.html

http://books.google.com/books?
id=At7YP0j6lAkC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=+%22hall+car bine+affair%22+-study+-essay&source=web&ots=JWqRlZHm3k&sig=MHxbTC0qQXgmGb weOLicg_e08Ns

http://books.google.com/books?id=N6rbt4X-VlEC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=%22hall+carbine+affair%22 +-study+-essay&source=web&ots=xdLT4IU48y&sig=6v5eozrbqeY879 3148P7vnB_iY4

http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=74TR20UJ

http://books.google.com/books?id=tDDZPuL7svkC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=morgan+f remont+%22hall+carbine+affair%22+-essay+-study&source=web&ots=u71IkF1W0P&sig=83agr-c4uxGzZ7QsxbcC3ZaNNeM


4. The 1st Colorado Infantry had the nicknames (Gilpin's) Pet Lambs and Pike's Peakers.

http://www.mycivilwar.com/regiments/usa-west/co_inf_reg_01.htm

http://www.lasermail.com/genes-stuff/Genealogy/BFF4.HTM

http://www.lasermail.com/genes-stuff/Genealogy/BFF11.HTM

http://www.nps.gov/peco/historyculture/copy-of-battleofglorietta.htm

http://www.currensnet.com/cwcongrs/newspaper/sfegazette.htm

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/91glorieta/91facts1.htm

http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/nicknames.regts.htm

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uncotr.htm

http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/colorado17.html

http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/civwar/civilwar.html

http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/conf_camp_page_3.htm

http://web.abqtrib.com/archives/news02/032802_news_tales.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Colorado_Volunteers

(Personal trivia: One of my ancestors was a “Pet Lamb”)


5. Ashbel Smith

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/fsm4_print.html

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/smith_a.htm

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00362/cah-00362.html

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

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2WJJ

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/qks4.html

(Personal trivia: Yep, another ancestor)



Four perfect scores this week! Welcome back to Blockaderunner from wherever he was incarcerated.

Please let me know if you think there are errors in my scoring.


Here are the scores after Week 5:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 24
Rad2duhbone53 - 20
Susan Sweet - 19
Aggie80 - 4

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 24
Gay Mathis - 19
Hoosier - 13
Borderruffian - 10
bgl1952 - 5
Blockaderunner - 1


See you next week!

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