Trivia 08-28-2020 & Bonus

[ErnieMac]

Main question:
Who was that well-known officer? James Longstreet.

 

[ErnieMac]

Main question:
Who was that well-known officer? James Longstreet.

Bonus:
Who am I? George E. Spencer.
What was the regiment I commanded? 1st Alabama Cavalry.

George E. Spencer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bixby272]

General James Longstreet

 

[sarladaise]

General James Longstreet

 

[Soldier Boy]

James Longstreet

Source: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/james-longstreet-in-wobbly-carpet-slippers-what-a-hoot.74851/

 

[JOHN42768]

Bonus: no luck on the gold digging colonel

 

[Michigander]

1. James Longstreet
Source

Spent much of my weekend looking for this illusive character. I might be putting too much emphasis on the gold rush being the one in California...but I am making a 100% guess because I can't find anything with what the clue is giving, especially a confederate staff officer from New York that became a colonel. I will continue to look but I am getting to the extent of my researching capabilities.
Bonus: Daniel Govan??
2nd Arkansas??
Source

 

[Michigander]

I found it!!! I want to make this my bonus question answer:
1. George E Spencer
2. 1st Alabama Calvary
Source

George Spencer was born in Champion, New York. Left for Colorado during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Helped to found the town of Breckenridge. Was a staff officer for Union Brigadier General Grenville Dodge. Transferred and was colonel of the pro union 1st Alabama Calvary. Would return to Alabama and become a senator after the war.

Sometimes you have to be like George Costanza and start doing the exact opposite.

 

[Mike Serpa]

General James Longstreet

 

[NFB22]

Longstreet &....no idea.

 

[Soldier Boy]

Bonus:

1) George E. Spencer
2) 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment

 

[Soldier Boy]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_E._Spencer&oldid=965514974

 

[Soldier Boy]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1st_Alabama_Cavalry_Regiment_(Union)&oldid=964925890

 

[Pollaco]

The deadline is fast approaching and I still can find no answer fo the bonus question, but I feel that I really should submit something. So lets go with EDWARD ELMER POTTER of the 1st. NORTH CAROLINA.

Edit - See edit to post # 7.

hoosier

 

[sarladaise]

Bonus:
No luck. The best I can come up with:

Edward E. Potter
1st North Carolina Union Infantry Regiment

Edit - See edit to post # 7.

hoosier

 

[ami]

James Longstreet (1821-1904).
Source
G. Moxley Sorrel, At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer. (New York: Neal Publishing Company, 1905), p. 103.

bonus George Eliphaz Spencer – 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment