2. While the Battle of Gettysburg was in progress, what separate cavalry battle took place less than 10 miles southwest?
3. Though Lee’s army suffered shortages of equipment throughout the winter of 1864-65, at the end of the war the warehouses of what Confederate state were found to contain nearly 100,000 uniforms and large quantities of other supplies?
4. In an August 1862 battle, each of the regimental commanders of a Confederate brigade fell; killed, wounded, or otherwise injured. Give the name of the brigade, and the name and date of the engagement.
5. In an August 1862 battle, each of the regimental commanders of a Union brigade fell; killed, wounded, or otherwise injured. Give the name of the brigade, and the name and date of the engagement.
Answers are due by 6pm (Eastern) on Saturday, October 4.
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1. A.P. Hill
2. Battle of Fairfield, PA
3. North Carolina
4. The "Tramp Brigade", under Brig. Gen. N.G. Evans, at Second Manassas, Aug. 30th, 1862.
5. The "Iron Brigade", under Brig. Gen. J. Gibbon, at Brawner's Farm, Aug. 28th, 1862.
__________________ "I will not lead my men in another such charge if Jesus Christ himself should order it!" -- Captain Thomas E. Barker, (acting) CO, 12th New Hampshire, Cold Harbor, Virginia June 3rd, 1864
Okay Sam I am back. Really rusty
1. A. P. Hill carried a small hambone that his mother gave him when he left home to go to West Point. He carried it with him the rest of his life.
2. Battle of Fairfield
3. North Carolina
4.Stonewall Brigade August28, 1862 Battle of Brawner's Farm INCORRECT
5. Black Hat Brigade , August 28 , 1862 Battle of Brawner's Farm
1. A.P. Hill 2.Battle of Fairfield 3.GeorgiaINCORRECT 4.Battle of Brawer's Farm/Aug.28th/Lawton-Gordon-Evans BrigadeINCORRECT 5."Black Hat"(Iron Brigade)-Aug.28th-Battle of Brawer's Farm
1. Ambrose Powell Hill
2. Battle of Fairfield, Pa.
3. North Carolina
4. Garnett's Brigade, Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862
5. John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade, Brawner's Farm, August 27, 1862
1) A.P. Hill 2) Battle At Fairfield, Pennsylvania 3) North Carolina 4) Thanks for the update, but it didn't help me at all. I'm clueless and bummed out. INCORRECT 5) On August 28, 1862 at Brawner's Farm, John Gibbon's "Black Hat Brigade" (not yet known as the "Iron Brigade") lost all four of it's regimental commanders - one killed, three wounded. Larry Gebing
(Note on Questions 4 and 5: I always seem to get in trouble using questions like these. I had read in Wert’s A Brotherhood of Valor that, referring to Gibbon’s brigade, “Every regimental commander fell in the fighting” at Brawner Farm and thought I could make a question out of that and had not intended to do a Confederate version of the question. In researching that, I found that Solomon Meredith (19th IN) did fall (beneath his horse, breaking several ribs), but was not killed or wounded, hence the “or otherwise injured”. (I had also meant to use the word “infantry” in the question so as to not include Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery which is by some accounts considered part of the brigade. It was only after I posted that I noticed that I had let that word out.) While researching, I also kept finding references to Garnett’s Brigade having lost all its regimental commanders at Cedar Mountain, so I added the Confederate question. I was worried that throughout the whole war, it was probable that some other brigade lost all its regimental commanders, so seeing that these to engagements both happened in August 1862, I narrowed the question down to that month.
Surely this could not have happened to more than one Union or Confederate brigade in a single month! (Doh!)
Neither was it a “trick” question. I did look for a battle in which both sides suffered this fate (the Holy Grail of trivia?), but couldn’t find one.
One last thing. I realize that the nicknames of the brigades I have accepted as correct may not have been given till after the engagements, but have accepted whatever variation of the name that applies.)
4. Garnett’s (Thomas Stuart) Brigade (2nd Brigade); Cedar Mountain (Cedar Run, Slaughter’s Mountain); August 9, 1862. I will also accept Evan’s Brigade (Tramp) at 2nd Manassas on Aug. 30., (tho I’m not entirely sure that S.D. Goodlett was there much less wounded; some OofB’s indicate he was wounded, others do not.) I also could not find that commanders of the 4th and 5th VA, nor any of Lawton’s regimental commanders fell at Brawner’s.
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