Trivia 1-26-16 Down on the Farm

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I'm afraid I know only about one farm, but it had two owners... kind of. Fraiser's Farm actually belonged to a man named Nelson.
 
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According to the wikipedia article, "Battle of Glendale," there was only one farm! ". . . the brunt of the fighting centered on the position held by the Pennsylvania Reserves division of the V Corps, 6,000 men under Brig. Gen. George A. McCall, just west of the Nelson farm, north of Willis Church. (The farm was now owned by R.H. Nelson, but many locals still called it Frayser's or Frazier's Farm.)"

Not trusting wikipedia, I checked other sources:
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/glendale.html mentions only Frayser's Farm.

http://www.nps.gov/rich/learn/historyculture/glendalebull.htm ditto. "Perhaps no Civil War battle has so many different names. Virtually every Confederate who fought there called it the Battle of Frayser’s Farm, but Union soldiers knew it as Glendale, Nelson’s Farm, Riddle’s Shop, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Crossroads, or White Oak Swamp."

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od...ivil-War-Battle-Of-Glendale-Fraysers-Farm.htm only mentions Frayser's Farm.

The interesting old map at http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/glendale/maps/glendalewhiteoakswamp.html shows only Nelson's Farm, although it does show both Frazier's House and Nelson's House. Admittedly I can't read everything on the somewhat blurry map, but I couldn't find labels for any other farm.

The Civil War Trust map http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/glendale/maps/glendalemap.html doesn't show any farms. The Encyclopedia Virginia, usually a good source, doesn't mention any farms either.
 
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I'm going to say Nelson and Frayser, though Wikipedia seems to indicate that Nelson's Farm and Frayser's Farm were actually one and the same, with Nelson being the owner at the time of the battle, though the Frayser family had owned it until relatively recently.
 
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Perhaps no Civil War battle has so many different names. Virtually every Confederate who fought there called it the Battle of Frayser’s Farm, but Union soldiers knew it as Glendale, Nelson’s Farm, Riddle’s Shop, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Crossroads, or White Oak Swamp.

http://www.nps.gov/rich/learn/historyculture/glendalebull.htm
 
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Answer:
1. Nelson, farmhouse located on the east side of the Willis Church Road
Nelson's farm was formerly owned by Frayser for whom the battle is often named.
2. Whitlock, farm located west of the Willis Church Road
"The 10th and 12th Pennsylvania regiments ... had made a strongpoint out of the log farmhouse of a man named Whitlock, piling up fence rails in the yard as a rough breastwork. The Virginians stormed right over the position, driving the Pennsylvanians before them. ..."
-- Stephen W. Sears: To the Gates of Richmond Page 295
CWT Map: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/glendale/maps/glendalemap.html

I see there are different answers, Hoosier may choose to give partial credit if he wishes.

Edit - Sources have been submitted to verify that fighting also took place on two small farms owned by two brothers named Sykes. Therefore, I will accept answers including any two of Nelson, Whitlock, and Sykes.

Many players (including me) answered Nelson and Frayser (or Frazier), but Nelson's farm was previously owned by Frayser, so Nelson's farm and Frayser's farm were one and the same. They were not two separate farms, so I can't give full credit for that answer.

However, upon further consideration, I have decided to take Ami's suggestion and give partial credit for that answer. There are a lot of sources that specify that the Battle of Frayser's Farm is an alternate name for the Battle of Glendale, and many of those sources do not mention any other farms at all. Under the circumstances, it is understandable that many players were inclined to think that the question was flawed and that there was only one farm where fighting took place, but if they wanted to get credit for a correct answer, they'd better come up with two names for that farm. So I'm going to give 5 points credit to all the players who correctly identified Nelson and Frayser as people who owned that farm at different times.

Hoosier
 
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