Trivia Game # 54 - Week 5

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 54 - Week 5



Here are the questions for Week 5 of Game # 54

1. On their retreat from the battle of Sharpsburg, Confederate soldiers hooted at and shouted down the playing of a song by a regimental band. What was the song?

2. After Appomattox, Robert E. Lee stayed in Richmond for a couple months, then left.
What was the name of the place (not the town or city) where Lee lived for three months after he left Richmond and until he went to Lexington, Va. to become president of Washington College?

3. After what 1862 battle were orders soon issued by both the AoP and the ANV that medical officers should not be held as prisoners of war?

4. This West Point professor taught the subject of military science to most all of the academy graduates who fought in the war. The author of several books concerning engineering and fortifications, he later killed himself by jumping off a steamboat forward of the wheel. Name him.

5. A few days after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, George McClellan invited 3 other generals to a dinner at his tent over which they discussed the matter. Who were the 3 generals?


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 16. Good Luck!

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. "Maryland my Maryland"
2.The Mess- (707 Franklin Street) INCORRECT
3.Battle of Winchester- May 1862
4. Dennis Hart Mahan
5. Ambrose Burnside/Jacob Cox/ John Cochrane

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[natek1029]

1. Maryland, My Maryland
2. The Derwent Farm
3. The 1st Battle of Winchester
4. Dennis H. Mahan
5. Ambrose Burnside, Jacob Cox, and John Cochrane

[sockknitter]

1. Maryland, My Maryland
2. The Mess INCORRECT
3. Winchester
4. Dennis Hart Mahan
5. Ambrose Burnside, John Cochrane, and Jacob Dolson Cox

[Oxkern]

1. 'Maryland, my Maryland'

2. Derwent

3. Battle of Winchester

4. ? INCORRECT

5. Ambrose Burnside; Jacob Cox; John Cochrane

[hoosier]

1. "Maryland, My Maryland"

2. Derwent, a cottage in Cumberland County, VA

3. Shiloh INCORRECT

4. Dennis Hart Mahan

5. Burnside, Hooker, and Meade INCORRECT

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 4 of Game #54:

1. “Maryland, My Maryland”

http://www.acws.co.uk/archives/history/botelersford.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=HRFtAcEHXREC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=maryland+m y+maryland+%22shouted+down%22&source=web&ots=XUdWb TTMyH&sig=aI6BqhoFgY24Ol6dhpaEIRlDd6c&hl=en&sa=X&o i=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

http://civilwartalk.com/forums/war-between-states-trivia-game/22294-trivia-game-30-week-6-a.html


2. Derwent

http://www.vahistorical.org/publications/historycorner_lee.htm

http://www.americancivilwar.org.uk/news_robert-e-lee-weekend:-jan-2006-after-appomattox_121.htm

http://www.villageprofile.com/virginia/powhatan/03hist/topic.html

http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?attrID=46147

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0 &ct=result&cd=1&q=derwent+%22robert+e.+lee+%22&spe ll=1


3. Winchester (US - Gen. Ord. No. 60, June 6, 1862 and CS - Gen. Ord. No. 45, June 26, 1862)

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/release.cfm

http://www.braceface.com/medical/Civil_War_Articles/Civil_War_Army_Surgeon.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8284050

http://www.innominatesociety.com/Articles/Hunter%20Holmes%20McGuire.htm

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/040299/medicalconditions.htm

http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/letter.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=rFHr8ti5sAwC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=medica l+officers+%22general+orders+No.+60%22&source=web& ots=pe0_PzJKzD&sig=VyafEYKAQEVA6bmZhTZXiZJvL1w&hl= en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=YoiDrA6Yq20C&pg=RA1-PA44&lpg=RA1-PA44&dq=medical+officers+1862+%22general+orders+No .+60%22&source=web&ots=R5kfLHGVPa&sig=acgphxT2PFTC bd5EhcZwjLcREVg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6 &ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=MZN-k8PFdWMC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=prisoners+winchester+ 1862+%22medical+officers%22&source=web&ots=5kNugzV jxH&sig=j0lamWtzcY4xGwOPJMOWHhEPDFk&hl=en&sa=X&oi= book_result&resnum=1&ct=result


4. Dennis Hart Mahan

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9804EEDF1E38EF34BC4F52DFBF66838A 669FDE

http://www.nps.gov/cwdw/historycultu...hart-mahan.htm

http://famousamericans.net/dennishartmahan/

http://www.history.army.mil/books/AMH/AMH-13.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/mahan-dennis-hart

http://books.google.com/books?id=1pSROjAyvDUC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=steamb oat+suicide+%22dennis+hart+mahan%22&source=web&ots =HRtuUQrooc&sig=bADEULvyFHUKILkVmHUR-_zpjcE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=resul t

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:GqHFUjdu-nwJ:www.aogusma.org/Pubs/assembly/020506/scientific.htm+boat+suicide+%22dennis+hart+mahan%2 2&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us


5. Ambrose Burnside, Jacob Cox, and John Cochrane

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E1DB1E39F934A3575BC0A9659482 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

http://www.fullbooks.com/Military-Reminiscences-of-the-Civil-War6.html

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/cw17.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=dykTTUYZ3bEC&pg=PA340&dq=cox+cochrane+din ner&sig=ACfU3U21zrNjidar-jLu_1eh_ECZan8_jw

http://books.google.com/books?id=SXm_WaZ_AVwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=lands cape+turned+red&sig=ACfU3U3F69ypulrrgx1EbMnwHOtyMR gK-w#PPA323,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=Xm5yePTDA0MC&pg=PA326&dq=emancipation+pro clamation+mcclellan+dinner&sig=ACfU3U1bIdwmG6vs--UoTmtw9k5pehVLmQ


natek1029 has pulled slightly ahead with a perfect score. Maybe he will explain the significance of "1029".

Still a very close game with one week to go!


Here are the scores after Week 5 of game #54:

FIRST DIVISION

Rad2duhbone53 - 23
Sarladaise - 20
Gay Mathis - 0
Susan Sweet - 0

SECOND DIVISION

natek1029 - 24
Sockknitter - 23
Hoosier - 18
Oxkern - 18
Borderruffian - 4
Ol'WarHorse - 1


Thanks for playing. See you next week!