Trivia 1-10-20 & Bonus

[Trivia Master]

Just hours from crossing the Potomac on the retreat from Gettysburg, Confederate General J Johnston Pettigrew was mortally wounded by a Michigan cavalryman. Who killed this cavalryman and how did he kill him?

credit: @SWMODave

Bonus:
A Union lieutenant was buying milk near my family home. Later that day, I would walk across a muddy field and save a Confederate officer from capture. I was never arrested for spying.

credit: @Equestriangirl93

 

[hughes]

Nevel Staten
beat him to death with a rock

 

[stuart1861]

Private Nevel B. Staten, 26th North Carolina, with a big stone to crush the cavalryman's breast.

Bonus: Laura Ratcliffe

 

[hughes]

BONUS: Laura Ratcliffe

new year same problem need to read all the lines

 

[FarawayFriend]

Regular question:

It took me a while to realize that it is unnecessary to find out the name of the Michigan corporal who killed Pettigrew!!
The man who killed that anonymous corporal was Private Nevel B. Staten and he did it by using a big stone to crush his breast.

Source

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bonus:

That was the Laura Ratcliffe, the local beauty who charmed Major General J.E.B. Stuart into writing her excessive amounts of romantic poetry and some very injudicious letters.

Virginia Beauty or Confederate Spy

Virginia Beauty, Laura Ratcliffe, was not only brilliant and gorgeous, but a brave and courageous Confederate Spy.

www.civilwarbummer.com

 

[Wallyfish]

Private N.B. Staton is our boy. After his musket failed to fire, Staton grabbed a stone and killed him with multiple blows of the stone.

Staton - rolling stone grows no moss source

Bonus.

I assume this is a who am I question. Laura Ratcliffe is the girl.

Laura Source

 

[captaindrew]

Main question: I can't find a single name, all I can find is several Confederates cornered the trooper of the 6th Michigan in a barn and beat him to death with stones.

Edit - Response revised in subsequent post.

hoosier

 

[Stone in the wall]

I find no name. Michigan cavalyman was chased into a barn and beaten by Confederate solders and killed with a rock.

 

[Brenal]

.."23 year old Private Nevel B Staten in the 26th NC (Co. B) killed the Yankee who shot Pettigrew by dropping a large rock on his chest"
Also for Glory Muster: The Story of the Pettigrew Trimble Charge at Gettysburg
By Don Ernsberger. Page 265

Bonus:
Laura Ratcliffe.
http://www.virginialiving.com/culture/a-beautiful-spy/

 

[connecticut yankee]

Private Nevel Staton of Company B, 26th North Carolina picked up a large rock and crushed the Yankee in the breast, killing him.

 

[captaindrew]

Bonus: Laura Ratcliffe

 

[connecticut yankee]

bonus:

 

[DBF]

Question
The cavalryman that killed the Union Corporal was: Private N.B. Staton of the 26th North Carolina.
The how he did it was: He stoned him to death with a big stone that he repeatedly hit him with until he died.
Source

Bonus
You Are: Laura Ratcliffe and on February 7, 1863 a trap was set by the Union Lieut. to capture Mosby near Laura's home. She walked across muddy fields to reach the home of her cousin, but in one the fields she met Mosby and warned him herself.
https://defendingtheheritage.blogspot.com/2013/04/

 

[General Casey]

Pvt. Nevel B. Staten, who crushed the cavalryman's breast with a big Stone

Bonus: Laura Ratcliffe

 

[streetwiseprof]

Nevel B. Staten, 26th North Carolina: killed him by crushing his chest with a rock.

 

[Kurt G]

Private N. B. Staton of the 26th North Carolina . He killed him with a rock .

 

[sarladaise]

General Pettigrew was mortally wounded by a Corporal of the 6th Michigan Cavalry.
Private N. B. Staton, Co.B, 26th North Carolina, grabbed a big stone, ran up to the Corporal and knocked him to the ground,
than hurled the stone at him. Repeated blows ultimately killed him.
Google books: Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign - page 347

 

[Michigander]

1. Private Nevel B Staten
2. Beat him to death with a "big stone."
Source

Bonus: Laura Ratcliffe
Source

 

[sarladaise]

Laura Ratcliffe. The Confederate officer she saved from capture was John Mosby.