Trivia 1-9-18 Little Ditty

[James N.]

Arthur MacArthur, Jr. at the storming of Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1863.

 

[Waterloo50]

That Day I Fought With Little Phil
(a song parody to the tune: "Has Anybody Seen My Gal")

Fighting hard, marching fast,
on this knob with troops amassed,
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Now we move, to those pits,
this is crazy we'll get hit.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

So now he leads a charge, up the hill,
look at Bragg run.
At the top, when we stop,
Little Phil jumps on a gun.

Looks like fun, now I try,
Whoa!! it's hot my bottom's fried.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Who Am I & What Had We Just Accomplished?

credit: @DBF

That Day I Fought With Little Phil
(a song parody to the tune: "Has Anybody Seen My Gal")

Fighting hard, marching fast,
on this knob with troops amassed,
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Now we move, to those pits,
this is crazy we'll get hit.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

So now he leads a charge, up the hill,
look at Bragg run.
At the top, when we stop,
Little Phil jumps on a gun.

Looks like fun, now I try,
Whoa!! it's hot my bottom's fried.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Who Am I & What Had We Just Accomplished?

credit: @DBF

You are Brigadier General Charles Harker and you had just helped to take the summit at Missionary Ridge.

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Major General George Thomas - had taken Missionary Ridge

Google failed me on this one. I even Googled burned butt in Battle of Chattanooga as a friend suggested. I really want to see this answer.

 

[WJC]

That Day I Fought With Little Phil
(a song parody to the tune: "Has Anybody Seen My Gal")

Fighting hard, marching fast,
on this knob with troops amassed,
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Now we move, to those pits,
this is crazy we'll get hit.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

So now he leads a charge, up the hill,
look at Bragg run.
At the top, when we stop,
Little Phil jumps on a gun.

Looks like fun, now I try,
Whoa!! it's hot my bottom's fried.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Who Am I & What Had We Just Accomplished?

credit: @DBF

This sounds like an allusion to the successful assault on Missionary Ridge by Generals Thomas J. Wood and Philip Sheridan, November 25, 1863.
If this is so, the 'song' appears to be about General Wood.

 

[lelliott19]

Brigadier General Charles Harker made the mistake of choosing a recently fired gun, scorching his seat so badly that he could not sit on a horse for weeks. http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/civil-war/miracle-at-chattanoogas-battle-of-missionary-ridge/
Accomplished - a major Union victory....the Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg were routed and their position on Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga, TN) was overrun.

 

[Belle Montgomery]

That Day I Fought With Little Phil
(a song parody to the tune: "Has Anybody Seen My Gal")

Fighting hard, marching fast,
on this knob with troops amassed,
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Now we move, to those pits,
this is crazy we'll get hit.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

So now he leads a charge, up the hill,
look at Bragg run.
At the top, when we stop,
Little Phil jumps on a gun.

Looks like fun, now I try,
Whoa!! it's hot my bottom's fried.
That day I fought with Little Phil.

Who Am I & What Had We Just Accomplished?

credit: @DBF

Major General George Thomas
Won the battle of Chattanooga on Missionary Ridge

 

[William G Hendry]

"I ordered you to take the rifle pits and you scaled the mountain." The Impossible Task
I think There are a lot of ways to answer this question,

On the summit, Sheridan leaped astride the same cannon that had fired at him a few minutes before. Wrapping his stumpy legs around the barrel, the banty Irishman swung his hat and cheered.{ Brigadier General Charles Harker } soon followed suit but made the mistake of choosing a recently fired gun, scorching his seat so badly that he could not sit on a horse for weeks. Everywhere, stunned Federals watched in amazement as their hated, eared, and grudgingly admired rivals simply ran away. "My God," cried an Indiana private, "come and see them run!" Wood rode among his men, laughing, "Soldiers, you ought to be court-martialed, every man of you," he joked. "I ordered you to take the rifle pits and you scaled the mountain." Seven soldiers won Medals of Honor that day, including Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur, the father of future World War II general Douglas MacArthur. It was the most won in a single day in American history.

Edit - Harker is the right answer to the "Who am I?" part of the question, but you failed to mention that what was accomplished was the taking of Missionary Ridge.

hoosier

 

[William G Hendry]

A few days after the battle, Braxton Bragg resigned as commander of the Army of Tennessee

 

[mofederal]

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/civil_war_series/9/sec7.htm

https://civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org/scrapbk/illinoismon.html

Colonel and later Brigadier General Charles G. Harker. The Battle of Missionary Ridge. The story is he couldn't sit a horse for two weeks afterward.

 

[chellers]

Correction: You are General Thomas Wood (not Sheridan).

 

[Iron Brigade]

Brig. Gen. Charles Harker. The accomplishment was the successful charge up Missionary Ridge during the Chattanooga Campaign.

 

[sarladaise]

You are Brig.Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
During the Battle of Chattanooga you and "Little Phil" had just driven the Confederates from
Missionary Ridge, staked your flags at the ridge's top and
proclaimed victory!

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/civil-war/miracle-at-chattanoogas-battle-of-missionary-ridge/

 

[adisciu9]

Brid. Gen. Charles Harker. captured Missionary Ridge and confederate cannon.

 

[Schwallanscher]

1. charles garrison harker
2. taking missionary ridge

- source -

 

[hoosier]

I assume Little Phil refers to Sheridan, but I can't find any reference to Sheridan's jumping on a gun after defeating Braxton Bragg in a battle, much less a reference to some subordinate of Sheridan's jumping on the same gun immediately afterward and suffering consequences to his derriere.

 

[ami]

Brigadier General Charles Garrison Harker and you (along with The Army of the Cumberland) routed Braxton Bragg off Missionary Ridge during the Battle of Chattanooga. Unfortunately for his "antics" he would be unable to ride a horse for several weeks. Sadly, he returned to his native state of New Jersey when he was shot from his horse and mortally wounded during a failed attack on Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, at the age of 28.

Sources
1. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_orchard_knob.html
2. http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/civil-war/miracle-at-chattanoogas-battle-of-missionary-ridge/
3. https://broeder10.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/ouch/
4. Shelby Foote - Volume 2 pages 856-857
5. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8034

Edit - Some players answered Thomas Wood and others answered George Thomas.

Wood did reach the top of Missionary Ridge and celebrated the accomplishment, but I can find no indication that he sat on a cannon and got burned doing so.

Thomas did not go to the top of Missionary Ridge. He was down at the bottom with Grant. Although Thomas was in command of the troops who successfully stormed the ridge, when Grant asked who had given the order to send them all the way up there, Thomas is reported to have said "I don't know. I did not."

hoosier