Trivia Game # 51 - Week 3

[samgrant]

Answers:


1. Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/inter-aspects/geol(mines).htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=Lq64QTPBqo4C&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=lead+s alt+%22virginia+and+tennessee+railroad%22&source=w eb&ots=KbR3LwV3Mq&sig=yPiVg0gwnRFLdRa6nOE5NZJU8-4

http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/vamin/VAMIN_VOL42_NO02.pdf

http://www.roanokecwrt.com/roundtableroanoke.html

http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/cloyds.html

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


2. Alonzo Hereford Cushing is buried at the USMA cemetery at West Point, New York. William Barker Cushing is buried at the USNA cemetery at Annapolis, Maryland.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3657

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6135

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cushinc/william1842.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71727278@N00/218186940

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Cushing

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


3. N. P. Ames Company (Ames Mfg. Co.)

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/swordcollector/marks/page1.html

http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article...acturers/58620

http://www.newlondonohio.com/know/amessword.htm

http://www.civil-war-sword.com/

http://www.oregonknifeclub.org/Newsletter%200403.pdf

http://www.iowanationalguard.com/Pub...Winter2004.pdf


4. Layton (Laten) Legg Stearns

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/count...hapter-48.html

http://www.searchforancestors.com/bi...arns_laten.php

http://books.google.com/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA73&dq=layton+legg+stear ns&sig=XdI8K_c17vkV6msa_SsbpUjqLK8

http://205.247.101.31:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/pjvbl-archi&CISOPTR=1640&CISOBOX=1&REC=4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_department_stores_of_the_United_St ates#Pennsylvania

http://www.allbusiness.com/north-ame.../892019-1.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=SGgxj7nDVcEC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=%22ll+ stearns+and+sons%22&source=web&ots=qUBKkpbS_U&sig= 97Rwmtx842kVnaj9nrknbcns9I4

http://www.city-data.com/forum/pennsylvania/98583-williamsport-photo-tour.html


5. Colonel Benjamin Franklin “Grimes” Davis was killed by forces under the command of Brigadier General William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones at the Battle of Brandy Station (Fleetwood Hill) (also will accept Beverly Ford)

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Jones

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

http://www.nps.gov/frsp/brandy.htm

http://www.brandystationfoundation.com/pages/battle.htm

http://www.bivouacbooks.com/bbv2i2s4.htm


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Welcome to our new player: 9thKYCoC !!!


Here are the scores after week 3 of game #51;

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 14
Rad2duhbone53 - 13
Susan Sweet - 10


SECOND DIVISION

Gay Mathis - 15
natek1029 - 15
Sockknitter - 14
Hoosier - 8
9thKYCoC - 3

Halfway thru Game #51 we have 2 of our newest players in the lead. This should be interesting!


Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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[hoosier]

Dadgum!

I recognized "Grumble" as the nickname of Confederate general William Jones, but did not know there was a Union general with a nickname of "Grimes," and assumed that Grimes was a real name, rather than a nickname. I kept looking through the lists of battles in which Grumble Jones and his fellow Confederate general Bryan Grimes participated, and couldn't figure out why there didn't seem to be any single battle at which both had been present.

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by hoosier

Dadgum!

I recognized "Grumble" as the nickname of Confederate general William Jones, but did not know there was a Union general with a nickname of "Grimes," and assumed that Grimes was a real name, rather than a nickname. I kept looking through the lists of battles in which Grumble Jones and his fellow Confederate general Bryan Grimes participated, and couldn't figure out why there didn't seem to be any single battle at which both had been present.

Well, you were on the right track, for a while.

[Rad2duhbone53]

So Close........ I narrowed it down to Lycoming County and Williamsport but couldn't find Stearns. I did find the sutler for the 6th Pa. Cavalry - a Felix Mann but couldn't connect him with a store on the west branch. Nutz!!!!!!!!!!!

[samgrant]

Well, players now have been "Dadgummed" and "Dumbfounded". Not sure what that all means, but, as we do mean to challenge you folks, it does seem promising!

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