Trivia 11-11-16 Surrender & Bonuses

CSS Shenandoah surrendered on the River Mersey, Liverpool, England, on November 6, 1865. Her flag was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be officially furled.
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1st Bonus-Still looking.

2nd Bonus-
A- Philip Paul Bliss
B- Hold The Fort
C-Bliss wrote the song in 1870
D-The Battle of Allatoona Pass was fought in Bartow County, Georgia on October 5, 1864.
E-Daniel Webster Whittle

source-http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/Allatoona2.html
 
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Veteran's Day bonus:

More a guess than a solid reply, but I could not find a better answer. Apparently there were a number of Gettysburg citizens who had grown tired of the praise John Burns got in public and found him overestimated. But I could not find many names. But two names I came across fulfil the required criteria of being well known Gettysburg citigens who don't fully agree to the Burns legend.

Gettysburg lawyer and politician David McConaughy, captain of the,“Adams Rifles“ and later the driving force behind the creation of Gettysburg National Cemetary opposed Burns's story of being the only civilian to join the fighting forces.

http://battlefieldbackstories.blogspot.de/2012/06/civilian-spies-david-mcconaughy-and.html

and Wikipedia articel about David,McConaughy

Also William Frassanito came up with a story of another civilian, Charles Frances Weakley (or Wheatley).
http://battleofgettysburgbuff.com/Odds_and_Ends.htm

If that is “refuting“ John Burns's story of being the only civilian volunteering, both well known Gettysburg gentlemen are guilty of it.

I have found two threads here about Weakley, one of them was started by @JPK Huson 1863 herself :smile:

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/things-you-mightve-heard-about-the-battle-of-gettysburg.73257/



http://civilwartalk.com/threads/c-f...red-shadow-at-gettysburg.128496/#post-1417927

Edit - This is the point at which I stopped checking all the different answers that were given for the Veterans' Day bonus question and realized that nobody had gotten the right answer because everybody who attempted to answer it assumed the question was asking about someone who was a prominent citizen of Gettysburg at the time of the battle - and I don't believe the person named as the official correct answer would have been considered a prominent citizen at that time.

Hoosier
 
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November 6, 1865, on the River Mersey at Liverpool, England the CSS Shenandoah was surrendered . Her flag was the last flag of the Confederate States to be officially lowered.

VETERANS DAY BONUS:
J. Howard Wert,
author, educator, civil war veteran and collector; was born born on February 12, 1841 near Gettysburg; attended Gettysburg College; and after the war, served at principal of Gettysburg High School and Superintendent of Adams County Schools. Of Bret Harte's poem, John Burns of Gettysburg, Wert wrote: "there is scarcely a line that is correct as to the details presented."
Bio - wiki/J._Howard_Wert
https://books.google.com/books?id=N8QPaIbCCM0C&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq="scarcely+a+line+that+is+correct+as+to+the+details+presented"&source=bl&ots=Bf8TG48oAn&sig=6ct8R2johI0blZgLvtmOhI8N7v4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihpv-IpqLQAhUIz2MKHco8C0cQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false


BONUS:
A. Philip Paul Bliss wrote the song (words and music) in 1870
B. Hold the Fort! (for I am coming) based on the wig-wag signal messages sent by US Signalman (Sgt) Allen D Frankenberry
C. October 3-5, 1864 during the
D. Battle of Allatoona Pass
E. Philip Paul Bliss said..."The pine tree from which Sherman’s signal was flown was cut down a few years after the war, and was made into souvenirs, I receiving a baton with which to lead my choirs." http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=rTlPcE8X0DM=&tabid=402&mid=1284 - page 14

https://books.google.com/books?id=yN4rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq="hold+the+Fort"+hymn+signal+corps&source=bl&ots=mgD0U_hEPK&sig=z-qg4LxzNUYo4nDEBJ4MAmZkUVo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC98rV_KPQAhVILSYKHU9gADwQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/Allatoona2.html


Edit - Although the first of the three sources you presented does indicate that Bliss himself also used a baton made from a witness tree, the question asked for the name of a friend, rather than Bliss himself.

Hoosier
 
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The last surrender of the Civil War and lowering of the Confederate flag was by the CSS Shenandoah. It took place on November 6, 1865 on the River Mersey in Liverpool, England.

Veteran's Day Bonus: Best I could find was that the Gettysburg newspaper Adams Sentinel refuted the John Burns claim.

Second Bonus Question
A. Paul Bliss
B. "Hold the Fort!"
C. 1870
D. Allatoona Pass
E. Daniel Webster Whittle
 
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CSS Shenandoah surrendered on the River Mersey, Liverpool, England, on November 6, 1865. Her flag was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be officially furled.

"Hold the Fort!" was written in 1870 by Philip Paul Bliss, an evangelist and composer, after he heard the story of the Union defense of Allatoona Pass/Star Fort (Oct. '64)
"The pine tree from which Sherman’s signal was flown was cut down a few years after the war, and was made into souvenirs, I receiving a baton with which to lead my choirs."-My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns, by Ira D. Sankey
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/misc/hold_the_fort_history.htm
 
Veteran's Day Bonus: I've been through 10 pages of google search and my two books on Gettysburg, Coddington and Trudeau. I haven't found anything about refuting the John Burns story, except Frassanito's statement that Burns was not the only civilian to fight (as mentioned in my first post).

However, I really liked this one, so will let it be my answer, even though it's probably wrong: https://almostchosenpeople.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/john-l-burns-of-gettysburg/, ". . . Burns’ wife was unimpressed, calling him an old fool for risking his neck on a battlefield at his age."
 
First Question: CSS Shenandoah was surrendered on November 6, 1865, at Liverpool, England, by Captain Waddell to Captain Paynter of HMS Donegal. The Confederate flag was lowered again for the very last time, under the watch of a Royal Navy detachment and the crew. CSS Shenandoah had struck her colors twice. This marked the last surrender of the American Civil War and the last official lowering of the Confederate flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CSS_Shenandoah&oldid=744280060

Second Question: Pass for now.

Third Question:

A. Philip Paul Bliss
B. Hold the Fort
C. October 5, 1864
D. Battle of Altoona Pass
E. Daniel Webster Whittle

http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/Allatoona2.html
 
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The CSS Shenandoah was surrendered by Captain Waddell to Captain Paynter of HMS Donegal on November 6 1865 in Liverpool England.

John Burns bonus.
My guess is Georgeanna "Georgia" Wade McClellan.

I looked for this in 102 books I have on Gettysburg with no results. Web searches didn't help. From memory on a tour, I recall that John Burns attempted to discredit Jenny Wade's story as he felt it he was the story not Jenny. Georgia was Jenny Wade's sister who disliked John Burns and in attempts to discredit him, she said that he was required to fight and protect Gettysburg because he was a constable. I also thought there was something either on David Wills or Ike, but I don't remember what. Can't wait to see the answer.

Other bonus.

Philip Bliss wrote the hymm.
Title was Hold the Fort.
When-October 5, 1864.
Battle-The Battle of Allatoona Pass
Friend was Daniel Webster Whittle

I found several possibilities for conductors as Read and Sankey both toured with Bliss, but Whittle is my final answer.
 
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The surrender should be on November 6, 1865; when the CSS Shenandoah surrendered to the Royal Navy at Liverpool.

Don´t know about Burns.

As for that multi-part bonus; that should be Philip P. Bliss with Hold the Fort. Written in April 1870 it was inspired by the Battle of Allatoona Pass that was on October 5, 1864. Not sure about his conducting friend; the said baton seemed to be a gift given to Bliss himself and I found no further trace of it.
 
November 6 1865, Liverpool Town Hall. CSS Shenandoah had struck her colors twice. This marked the last surrender of the American Civil War and the last official lowering of the Confederate flag. The very last act of the Civil War was Captain Waddell walking up the steps of Liverpool Town Hall with a letter to present to the mayor surrendering his vessel to the British government.

Davis Wills

Tune by Philip P. Bliss
Hold The Fort
Written in 1870
The Battle of Allatoona Pass was fought on October 5, 1864https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&...ved=0ahUKEwiF2uifgqfQAhXF6CYKHeu4DisQ9AgIUDAE
Ira D Sankey
 
Bonus: "Hold the Fort" by Philip Paul Bliss, Message between Kennesaw Mountain and Allatoona Pass Eve of Oct,4.1864, Battle of Allatoona Pass
Maj. Daniel Whittle YMCA
"I ask again--I thought we were not using multi part questions anymore??"
Source: http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/Allatoona2.html

Edit - We are still accepting multi-part questions. I think two or three part questions should be OK. I agree that five parts is quite a few, especially in cases such as this one, where the players' answers make it obvious that finding the answer to some of the parts still isn't going to make it easy to find the answers to all the other parts. However, we have not yet come up with a hard-and-fast rule specifying the maximum number of parts that a question can contain and still be considered acceptable. Maybe that's what we need to do.

Hoosier
 
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The CSS Shenandoah surrendered at Liverpool, England on November 6, 1865

Veterans Day Bonus: I have no stinking idea since I didn't know that anyone refuted John Burns' story about volunteering to fight nor could I find anything in a weekend long search.

Bonus:
A. Philip Paul Bliss
B. Hold the Fort
C. & D. The song was written in 1870 but it was inspired by the Battle of Alatoona Pass on October 5, 1864.
E. Daniel Webster Whitting
 
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Liverpool, November 6, 1865, when Capt. James Waddell surrendered the CSS Shenandoah

Bonus: A: Philipp Paul Bliss
B: "Hold the Fort"
C: October 5, 1864
D: Battle of Allatoona, Atlanta Campaign
E: Ira D. Sankey

Veterans Day Bonus: Searched till the cows came home, but couldn't find a particular Gettysburg resident
who refuted John Burns' story, though there must have been quite a few who took exception to his calling
them "Copperheads" and "cowards", maybe David McConaughy, captain of the "Adams Rifles" was among
them...
 
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