Who can guess this?

[Complicity]

It is hard in the age of Google to pose challenging questions about little known facts of the Cvil War, but I will give it a try.

Who can name a Civil War battle that was interrupted by a tornado?

As a bonus, who can provide the nickname of one such battle that is associated with a common flying creature?

 

[matthew mckeon]

You should definitely check in with the trivia master! I have not the first clue!

 

[chellers]

Agree with Matthew. This probably goes in Trivia.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

I don't know the answer to your first question but I believe the answer to the second one might be The Battle of the Bees on April 3, 1864, at Okolona Arkansas when General Joe Shelby's Confederate troops engaged the Federal forces of General Samuel Rice in a pecan orchard during a severe thunderstorm. The storm's high winds overturned several beehives. The bees first attacked the Confederates then went after the Federals causing both sides to flee the orchard.

 

[ErnieMac]

Okolona wasn't the only place bees entered the fray. The attached link discusses the travails of the 132nd Pennsylvania at Antietam and the 11th U.S. Regulars at 2nd Manassas.
http://entomology.montana.edu/historybug/civilwar2/buzz.htm

 

[James N.]

I don't know the answer to your first question but I believe the answer to the second one might be The Battle of the Bees on April 3, 1864, at Okolona Arkansas when General Joe Shelby's Confederate troops engaged the Federal forces of General Samuel Rice in a pecan orchard during a severe thunderstorm. The storm's high winds overturned several beehives. The bees first attacked the Confederates then went after the Federals causing both sides to flee the orchard.

According to Bruce Catton's Mr. Lincoln's Army, a similar occurrence occurred during the Battle of Antietam when Confederate artillery smashed several beehives on the Roulette Farm just as some Federals were advancing through the farmyard. The bees took their anger out on the innocent Yanks!

 

[Complicity]

I don't know the answer to your first question but I believe the answer to the second one might be The Battle of the Bees on April 3, 1864, at Okolona Arkansas when General Joe Shelby's Confederate troops engaged the Federal forces of General Samuel Rice in a pecan orchard during a severe thunderstorm. The storm's high winds overturned several beehives. The bees first attacked the Confederates then went after the Federals causing both sides to flee the orchard.

This is the winner.

Shelby's eye witness biographer, John Edwards, labeled the storm a "hurricane" which was a common name for a tornado during the era in that part of the country. His description of the storm on pages 259 - 263 of Shelby and His Men is undeniably a tornado.