Trivia 08-17-2020 Who Am I?

[Trivia Master]

Question: I was a famous Frontier Scout who as a teenager participated in the Battle of Harrisburg/Tupelo in July 1864.
Who am I and in which regiment did I serve?

credit: @Ole Miss

 

[hughes]

William Cody
7th Kansas Cavalry

 

[luinrina]

You are William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917). You served with the 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company H.

Sources: https://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-4-1882-buffalo-bill-cody-and-birth.html, https://civilwartalk.com/threads/buffalo-bill-and-nathan-bedford-forrest.123077/, Wikipedia (Cody, 7th Kansas Cavalry)

 

[stuart1861]

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 7th Kansas Calvary

 

[Pollaco]

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a member of Co. H of the 7th Kansas Cavalry during the battle of Tupelo.

 

[streetwiseprof]

William Cody. 7th Kansas Cavalry.

 

[JOHN42768]

William F. Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917)
7th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry
source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:7th_Regiment,_Kansas_Cavalry,_United_States_Civil_War

 

[NFB22]

"Buffalo" William (Bill) Cody

7th Kansas Vol. Cavalry

 

[WJC]

Question: I was a famous Frontier Scout who as a teenager participated in the Battle of Harrisburg/Tupelo in July 1864.
Who am I and in which regiment did I serve?

credit: @Ole Miss

William Frederick Cody (1846 –1917), Private, Company H, Seventh Kansas Cavalry.
Cody described his experience:

About this time the Seventh Kansas regiment, known as "Jennison's Jay-hawkers," returned from the war, and re-enlisted and re-organized as veterans. Among them I met quite a number of my old comrades and neighbors, who tried to induce me to enlist and go south with them. I had no idea of doing anything of the kind; but one day, after having been under the influence of bad whisky, I awoke to find myself a soldier in the Seventh Kansas. I did not remember how or when I had enlisted, but I saw I was in for it, and that it would not do for me to endeavor to back out.​

In the spring of 1864 the regiment was ordered to Tennessee, and we got into Memphis just about the time that General Sturgis was so badly whipped by General Forrest. General A. J. Smith re-organized the army to operate against Forrest, and after marching to Tupalo, Mississippi, we had an engagement with him and defeated him. This kind of fighting was all new to me, being entirely different from any in which I had ever before engaged. I soon became a non-commissioned officer, and was put on detached service as a scout.​

After skirmishing around the country with the rest of the army for some little time, our regiment returned to Memphis, but was immediately ordered to Cape Girardeau, in Missouri, as a confederate force under General Price was then raiding that state. The command of which my regiment was a part hurried to the front to intercept Price, and our first fight with him occurred at Pilot Knob. From that time for nearly six weeks we fought or skirmished every day.​

Source: William F. Cody, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody- Known as Buffalo Bill. (Hartford, CN: Frank E. Bliss, 1879), p. 95.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Buffalo Bill 7th Kansas cavalry

 

[sarladaise]

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Co. H, Seventh Kansas Cavalry

 

[FarawayFriend]

1) My guess is that you are William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846 - 1917)
2) Your regiment was the 7th Kansas Cavalry

"In the fall of 1861 he was a Government scout and guide at Fort Larned, Kan., and in 1862 served as a scout and guide for the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, being chiefly employed in Arkansas and South Western Missouri. In 1863 he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and served in Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Kansas, and participated in several battles. He was made a non-commissioned officer and served as a scout for his regiment after the battle of Tupelo. [...] Cody again entered the Government service in 1868 as a scout and guide, and, after a series of dangerous rides as bearer of important dispatches through a country which was infested with hostile Indians, was appointed by Gen Sheridan chief scout and guide for the Fifth Cavalry, which had been recently ordered from reconstruction duty in the Southern States for a campaign against the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes.

William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

codyarchive.org

Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) - Find a Grave...

Western Frontiersman, Entertainer, Indian Wars Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Scott County, Iowa, his family moved to Kansas when he was eight. When his father died in 1857, young Bill rode a mule as a messenger for a freight company. The next year, he dropped out of school, and began making...

de.findagrave.com

In 2018 I visited his grave on top of Lookout Mountain near Golden, CO:

 

[Brenal]

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody who had enlisted, at age 17 in 1863, as a teamster in Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry.

 

[Poorville]

Question: I was a famous Frontier Scout who as a teenager participated in the Battle of Harrisburg/Tupelo in July 1864.
Who am I and in which regiment did I serve?

credit: @Ole Miss

Buffalo Bill, (William Frederick Cody) served in 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

 

[Stony]

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody - Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry,
source-https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3984h.cw0272000/?r=0.376,0.067,0.924,0.361,0

 

[hoosier]

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Kansas 7th Cavalry

 

[ErnieMac]

Who am I? William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody.
In which regiment did I serve? 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Buffalo Bill and Nathan Bedford Forrest

Chances are you’re like me and have passed by the Battle of Harrisburg (Tupelo) monument numberous times. And, like me, have never stopped.

www.leecountycourier.net

 

[farrargirl]

Question: I was a famous Frontier Scout who as a teenager participated in the Battle of Harrisburg/Tupelo in July 1864.
Who am I and in which regiment did I serve?

credit: @Ole Miss

I am William ( Buffalo Bill ) Cody
Regiment: 7th Kansas Cavalry, Co. H

 

[captaindrew]

Buffalo Bill Cody, 7th Kansas Cavalry

 

[warbird43]

1. Who am I ? Private William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody

2. In which regiment did I serve ? 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company H