Trivia Game # 51 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Time to begin a new game. New players are welcome to join the game at any time, but the first week of any game is always an especially good time.


Here are the questions for week 1 of Game # 51:


1. Elected as a Unionist, he voted against the articles of secession at his state’s convention. He was wounded at Williamsburg, then taken prisoner and exchanged in time to take part in 2nd Manassas. He was again wounded at Sharpsburg. Elected to congress in 1863, he did not take his seat till the following year. He rode with JEB Stuart during the Gettysburg campaign and was with him at Yellow Tavern. Post-war he became a Republican and was a president of a railroad. He was offered the Republican nomination for governor, but declined it. Name him.

2. At a cabinet meeting which Gen. Ulysses Grant attended, President Lincoln spoke of a dream he had which he said was a good omen and enumerated a list of Union victories. Grant interjected that one of those battles which Lincoln named was not a victory. Which of those named battles did Grant say was not a victory?

3. Though officially a Union cavalry regiment authorized by Governor Andrew Johnson, the regiment was most well known for it’s irregular activities marauding through West Tennessee, robbing, extorting, and killing Confederate sympathizers. Nathan Bedford Forrest wrote to Federal authorities, calling them “outlaws”. What Tennessean was the leader of this renegade outfit, and what was the regiment’s official designation?

4. Once, when Robert E. Lee was holding his horse, Traveller, the horse was startled and jerked causing Lee to fall and break his hand. Shortly thereafter Lee was given a new horse. What was the name of the new horse and who gave it to General Lee?

5. One of at least six Civil War generals to be born in a Bluegrass Region county of Kentucky, he was a West Point graduate who served in the Mexican War. A cavalry commander, he served with Joe Wheeler at Mufreesboro. Later in the war he served under Nathan Bedford Forrest and was wounded in the retreat from the Nashville campaign. Post-war he served in his state’s legislature. He died by his own hand. Name him.


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, February 16.

Good luck!

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[natek1029]

1. Williams C. Wickham
2. Stone's River
3. Fielding Hurst, 6th Tennessee Cavalry
4. Lucy Long, JEB Stuart
5. Abraham Buford

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. William Carter Wickham

2. Stones River

3. Fielding Hurst/ 6th Tenn. Cavalry Regiment USA

4. Lucy Long/ JEB Stuart

5. Abraham Buford

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[sarladaise]

1. Williams Carter Wickham

2. Stones River

3. Fielding Hurst, 6th Tennessee Cav. Reg. USA

4. Lucy Long, JEB Stuart

5. Abraham Buford

[Gay Mathis]

1. William Carter Wickham
2. Stones River
3. Fielding Hurst--6th Tennessee Cavalry Reg (Union)
4. Lucy Long--General J. E. B. Stuart
5. Abraham Buford
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Gay

[hoosier]

1. No answer INCORRECT

2. Antietam INCORRECT

3. The regiment was officially designated the 6th Tennessee Cavalry, led by Col. Fielding Hurst.

4. The new horse was named Lucy Long. J.E.B. Stuart presented her to Lee.

5. Abraham Buford

[sockknitter]

1. Williams Carter Wickham
2. Stone[s] River
3. Fielding Hurst; 6th Tennessee Cavalry
4. Lucy Long; JEB Stuart
5. Abraham Buford

[Susan Sweet]

1.Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888)

2.General Grant said Stone River was certainly no victory

3.Andrew Johnson then Governor of Tennessee, authorized and commissioned Fielding Hurst, of McNairy county, to recruit and organize a regiment, and this regiment was known as the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry. About the first of October in that year companies A, B, C, D, and G, were organized by Col. Hurst."

4. "Lucy Long was a present to General Lee from General J. E. B. Stuart

5. GENERAL ABRAHAM BUFORD

[samgrant]

Happy Birthday to sockknitter who turns 29 again this year!!!


Here are the answers to Week 1 of Game #51:


1. Williams Carter Wickham

http://members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/wickham.htm

http://www.geocities.com/joewickham/williams.htm

http://hanoverdragoons.com/TRIBUTES/wickham.html

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

http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=740



2. Stones River

http://books.google.com/books?id=bWc2_AqRbiIC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=lincol n+dream+grant+%22stone's+river%22&source=web&ots=H JZizLnQvD&sig=cb8dANni0JA8CbMxLrLqcv3yUMI

http://books.google.com/books?id=u6DhS-hImkkC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=lincoln+dream+grant+cab inet+vicksburg+gettysburg+antietam+%22stone's+rive r%22&source=web&ots=J8qelSa1Fg&sig=wDfbhFmMx8STjDB-8Jz-qWDhN2M

http://books.google.com/books?id=cv5IbR5f9oMC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=+%22a+ few+such+fights+would+have+ruined+us%22&source=web &ots=Hm8EcDkyi5&sig=W3ZdYKTA16-eXnBCc4Jk9fJCByM

http://books.google.com/books?id=-U1h0f8y4rsC&pg=PA395&lpg=PA395&dq=+%22a+few+such+f ights+would+have+ruined+us%22&source=web&ots=l0DCU JAQ6q&sig=9qvQ9nCptD9FzWU31ei8fAXHPH0



3. Fielding Hurst, 6th Tennessee Cavalry USA

http://hurstnation.com/hurst-w-clay-crook.htm

http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usacav/usa6cav.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndyer/military/homemade.html

http://hurstnation.com/fielding-timeline.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hurstpage/vol3no9.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hurstpage/6th_cavalry.htm

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/...r/3037441.html



4. Lucy Long was given to Lee by Gen. JEB Stuart.

http://www.southern-history.com/index.php?

option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=34
http://groups.msn.com/SingleHorseLovers/famoushorses.msnw?
action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=251

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

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/1/Appendices/5*.html

http://www.fjcollazo.com/fjc_publishings/documents/RELeeSigRpt.htm



5. Abraham Buford

http://www.bufordfamilies.com/Genera...m%20Buford.htm

http://fokh.org/abraham_buford.htm

http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Buford/witt1.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9507

http://home.ptd.net/~NIKKI/csagen1.htm

http://famousamericans.net/abrahambuford1/

http://books.google.com/books?
id=1X1evZu45RcC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=suicide+%22abr aham+buford%22&source=web&ots=MXtB5NC7Sm&sig=IriKO O8Mbvu58nE0iEQsBZhP9lI


http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read...-08/1187278432



Welcome to natek1029, who got a perfect score in his/her first effort!

Here are the scores for game #51, Week 1:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 5
Rad2duhbone53 - 5
Susan Sweet - 5


SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 5
Gay Mathis - 5
natek1029 - 5
Hoosier - 3


Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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