Trivia Game # 51 - Week 6

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 51 - Week 6


Here are the questions for Week 6:

1. A diminutive officer on the staff of a famous Civil War general shares the name
of a former Super Bowl MVP. (Not middle names.) Give the first and last names.


2. This pre-war friend and associate of William T. Sherman enlisted in the Stafford Guards at the start of the war. He served under the same commander both in Virginia and Louisiana and was captured at Fort DeRussy. Name him.


3. This cavalry regiment included a Lieutenant Colonel who was the brother of a famous abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, and a Captain who was the son of a famous violent abolitionist. Name the regiment.


4. This Medal of Honor winning Civil War officer graduated at the head of his class at West Point. Name him.


5. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, he organized an escape from a notorious Confederate Prison in 1864. Name him.


Good luck!

(We will be taking an "Easter Break" for one week after game 51.)


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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

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[natek1029]

1. Peyton Manning
2. David French Boyd
3. 7th Kansas Cavalry
4. Henry A. Du Pont (1st in May '61)
5. Col. Thomas E. Rose, 77th PA

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. INCORRECT

2.Richard Taylor INCORRECT

3.7th Kansas Cavalry

4. Henry A. Dupont

5. Thomas Ellwood Rose

[sockknitter]

1. Peyton Manning
2. David F. Boyd
3. 7th Kansas
4. Henry A. du Pont
5. Thomas Ellwood Rose

[Susan Sweet]

1.Peyton Manning

2.David Boyd

3.7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

4. Henry A. duPont
5. Thomas Ellwood Rose

[hoosier]

1. Raymond Lewis INCORRECT

2. Dr. Smith Gordon INCORRECT

[ If I may ask, who the heck, in the context of the Civil War, were Raymond Lewis and Smith Gordon?]

3. 7th Kansas

4. Henry A. DuPont

5. Col. Thomas E. Rose

[Gay Mathis]

1. Peyton Manning
2. David French Boyd
3. 7th Kansas Cavalry--"Jennison Jayhawkers"
4. Henry A. du Pont
5. Thomas Ellwood Rose
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Gay

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 6 of Game #51:


1. Peyton Manning (Peyton Thompson Manning was on Longstreet’s staff, Peyton Williams Manning thrashed my Bears in Super Bowl LXI.)

http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/a-100-pound-nfl-quarterback/

http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/a-tale-of-two-peytons/

http://corpsaag.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html

http://www.longstreet.org/PManning.html

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

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forum...ad.php?t=51373

http://books.google.com/books?id=DTY...bWyIUOg0oJTgIY

http://books.google.com/books?id=VZ4hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=confederate+staf f+officer+manning

http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=932


2. David French Boyd

http://books.google.com/books?id=HJhSIqRu5C4C&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=david+bo yd+%22stafford+guards%22&source=web&ots=EbmZj1qyRf &sig=GzpGRgrQw1cCw6d1VhQIgwhgVqk&hl=en

http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/042/boyd.html

http://clanboyd.info/state/virginia/famhist/davidf/

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?S=R&bid=9347537624&cm_mmc=shopco mpare-_-base-_-nonisbn-_-na

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/w3362.html


3. 7th Kansas Cavalry (Jennison’s Jayhawkers) (Lt. Colonel Daniel R. Anthony, Captain John Brown, Jr.)

http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/History2/casteljayhawking.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/9056/7thks.html

http://www4.pair.com/justfolk/Diary11.htm

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/...milrec-p7.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=a3n...jbbySSUA&hl=en

http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/military/7thks.htm


4. Henry Algernon du Pont (Class of 1861, May)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._du_Pont

http://www.dnronline.com/civilwar/part-2/peo-mil-dupont.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wf9FCm4a3kUC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=medal+of+h onor+pont+%22first+in+his+class%22&source=web&ots= 4C4AC5mKZB&sig=wgmzOdPl9x6H_q6d7CMwEOwsnz0&hl=en


5. Thomas Ellwood Rose

http://www.mdgorman.com/Prisons/Libby/story_of_the_famous_tunnel_escap.htm

http://www.mdgorman.com/Written_Accounts/National_Tribune/national_tribune_5141885.htm

http://www.mdgorman.com/Written_Accounts/National_Tribune/national_tribune,_1_29_1885.htm

http://www.mdgorman.com/Prisons/Libby/colonel_roses_tunnel.htm

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

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8047

http://www.77thpennsylvania.com/id2.html

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/1pa/military/cwar/batesmd/bates13-b.txt


Gay Mathis is the winner of week #51 with a perfect 30 points! Outstanding job in only her/his first complete 6 week game!

Please PM me your snail mail address. I'll update the prize list shortly, contact you soon. (Thanks to sockknitter for donating several items to our Treasure Chest of Fabulous prizes!) Gay will also move into the first division with this decisive victory.



Here are the final scores for game #51:

FIRST DIVISION

Susan Sweet - 25
Sarladaise - 24
Rad2duhbone53 - 23

SECOND DIVISION

Gay Mathis - 30
natek1029 - 28
Sockknitter - 25
Hoosier - 17
9thKYCoC - 3
5fish - 1


Everyone have a very joyous Easter, Spring is right around the corner!

Game #52 will start next saturday, March 29. See you then.


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[hoosier]

Well, Sam, since you asked…

I looked through a list of Super Bowl MVP’s and tried to pick out names that seemed like they would fit in the Civil War era. Finding no documentation that any of the names I had picked had ever been a staff officer in the Civil War, I just took a guess and selected one of the names.

I thought Peyton Manning was too esoteric a name to have been used during the Civil War, so that name wasn’t on my list. Guess I should have thought again.

As for Dr. Smith Gordon, there actually was a person by that name who served in the Civil War.

The first muster roll of the “Stafford Guards,” Co. B of the 9th LA Infantry, the company of which Leroy Augustus Stafford was the original captain, listed Dr. Smith Gordon as the first lieutenant, as documented at
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb...s/stafgrds.txt

I found no information that the good doctor ever served in Virginia, or that he was ever captured at Fort DeRussy. Again, I resorted to a guess that, since he was the senior officer of the company other than Stafford himself, there was a chance that he might have been an associate of Sherman’s.