Trivia 10-5-18 & Birthday Bonus!

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Bozo the Clown in a past life. No idea, no clues given, no answer. He could be anybody.


Bonus:

https://gazette665.com/2017/11/29/voyages-of-blockade-runners/

https://www.civilwartalk.com/threads/mexicos-role-in-subverting-the-union-blockade.143687/page-5

Free Port or South Riding Point, Grand Bahamas. It could also be Matamoros, Mexico.

Mike's Birthday Bonus:

James Longstreet and Alexander Hays

Edit - Freeport did not exist at the time of the Civil War and Matamoros could be reached by land as well as by ship. I am not familiar with South Riding Point, but even if it was used as a port during the Civil War, the other two answers are incorrect.

Longstreet was married in 1848, but I can find no source indicating that he defended the rear of an army from an attack by Hays at Boonesborough.

hoosier
 
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By his hair style I'll guess Larry of the Three Stooges grand father??? LOL

Edit - Colt45texan, it wasn't him, but it looks like you had fun with your answer.

Welcome to the trivia game. Hope you'll come back and play again.

hoosier
 
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#1 Who am I? - Ebenezer G Lamson - source

#2 Closest neutral port only reached by sea? - by sea eliminates any Canadian or Mexican port, so I will go with Havana - which appears to be much closer to CSA mainland than either Bermuda or Nassau - source

#3 Who am I and who was my groomsman? - I am General Daniel Hill and he is General John Gibbon - source

And happy birthday Mike!
 
Mike's birthday question (Happy Birthday, Mike!):

After spending at least an hour looking up every division commander who ever served under Hancock, I'm stuck. I attacked the question from a variety of other ways, too.---such as trying to determine what I could about the Confederate rear guard at Boonesboro, prior to battle of September 17th. Alas to no avail--- A tip of the hat to @luinrina for a great question!
 
Friday: Ebenezer G. Lamson, of Lamson, Goodnow & Yale. Vermont abolitionist who sold off his sewing machine business at the start of the war and went to rifle manufacture.
https://vermonthistory.org/journal/79/VHS7902GunsForBillyYank.pdf, p. 146

Bonus: Best guess (looked up distance, could only get in air miles), Havana, Cuba

Mike's birthday bonus: Had to give this one up. But I hope Mike had a very happy birthday!
 
Ebenezer G. Lamson (1814-1891), co-founder of Lamson & Goodnow Company in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, In 1858 he partnered with B. Buchanan Yale to purchase the assets of a private armory in Windsor, Vermont. Their company, Lamson, Goodnow & Yale, produced gun-making machinery to supply most of the factories making rifles, carbines, and pistols for the United States Army during the rebellion.
Bonus: what was the closest neutral port to the confederacy that could only be reached by ship ?
credit: @Henry Brown
Nassau, Bahamas, 55 miles from Florida, 534.5 miles from Charleston, South Carolina, 536 miles from Savannah, Georgia.
Both Havana, Cuba and Cárdenas, Cuba were lesser ports of origination for blockade runners. Though close to Florida, they were further from developed rebel ports than Nassau.

Another major port of origination, St George's, Bermuda, lies 665 miles from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Mike's Birthday Bonus:
Question: At my wedding in 1848, he served as one of my groomsmen. 14 years later, he led his hard-fighting troops against my own while I was protecting the rear of our scattered army at Boonsborough. He later became a division commander under General Hancock.
Who am I and who was my groomsman?
credit: @luinrina
Daniel H. Hill (1821-1889) was the groom, marrying Isabella Morrison on November 2, 1848. John Gibbon (1827-1896) was a groomsman, as was his older brother, Lardner Gibbon (1820-1910).
 
Mike's Birthday Bonus--"Happy Birthday"
Based on the 1848 Wedding and groomsman
U.S.Grant and James Longstreet
At about the same time as Longstreet began courting Garland, Grant became acquainted with and courted Longstreet's fourth cousin, Julia Dent, and the couple eventually married. Historians agree that Longstreet attended the Grant wedding on August 22, 1848 in St. Louis, but his role at the ceremony remains unclear.[15][16] Grant biographer Jean Edward Smith asserted that Longstreet served as Grant's best man at the wedding.[15] John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet "may have been a groomsman," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man "uncertain" while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned such a role in either of their memoirs.[17]
Source:
Edit - You're right about Grant being married in 1848 and Longstreet being present, but I can find no source to verify that Grant had to defend the rear of an army against an attack from Longstreet at Boonesborough.

hoosier
 
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Regular Question:
Ebenezer G. Lamson
(7 December 1841 - 1891)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64787044/ebenezer-goodnow-lamson https://vermonthistory.org/journal/79/VHS7902GunsForBillyYank.pdf - p. 6.
President of the Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company, which was, in 1860, the largest producer of cutlery in America. Owner of the E. G. Lamson & Company armory which produced the first machine-made rifles which used the Minie ball or equivalent. By 1861, the company was making 50,000 Springfield rifled muskets a year. E. G. Lamson & Co. produced machinery for manufacturing guns and, by 1862, was manufacturing breech loading rifles with magazines that could fire 20 times per minute.

https://books.google.com/books?id=P...ECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=ebenezer g lamson&f=false

BONUS:

Since the question does not specify closest to a port of the Confederacy, then I assume it means closest to any part of the Confederacy. I ruled out Matamoros and Bagdad, Mexico which were neutral ports very near Texas, since both were accessible by land. The neutral ports nearest to the Confederacy that could only be reached by ship were Bermuda; Havana, Cuba; and Nassau, Bahamas. Bermuda is 732 miles from New Bern on the North Carolina coast. The distance from Havana, Cuba to the southern-most tip of Key West, Florida is 106 miles but Key West was under Union control and, presumably, not considered part of the Confederacy? Nassau to the Florida coast in the vicinity of Miami is 184 miles. According to this source "....the leaders of the Confederacy turned to Nassau, the closest neutral port to the south." https://books.google.com/books?id=N...ssau confederate neutral port nearest&f=false
All that to say, my final answer is Nassau, Bahamas.
Mike's Birthday Bonus: Happy birthday @civilwartalk :bounce::cannon::bounce: I guess we should have known your birthday question would be a doozy?!?!?!?! This may have been easy for everyone else, but it sure was tough for me.
Daniel Harvey Hill (12 July 1821 – 24 September 1889)
and the groomsman John Gibbon (20 April 1827 – 6 February 1896)

John [Gibbon] was at home in North Carolina on 2 November 1848 when he and his brother, Lardner, attended the wedding of fellow Mexican War veteran Daniel H. Hill as "best men." http://www.shissem.com/Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon_Branch.html https://books.google.com/books?id=r...QAQ#v=onepage&q=John Gibbon Boonsboro&f=false
 
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