Trivia #13 Friday Bonus (6/13/2014)

[Trivia Master]

Tonight's Civil War Trivia Question Value: 2 points.
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True or False: The first Union soldier to die at Gettysburg was killed by Confederates on June 26, 1863.
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[adisciu9]

True

 

[Stony]

True

 

[Bob Owen]

True

 

[hoosier]

True

 

[Copperhead-mi]

True. The Monument to the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry at Gettysburg National Military Park notes on its base that Private George W. Sandoe was killed June 26th, 1863 when he was shot by Confederate pickets from Brigadier General John Gordon's Brigade, which makes him the first Union soldier to be killed by Confederates at Gettysburg.

 

[chellers]

true

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

True

 

[Littlestown]

True.

 

[truthckr]

true

 

[csb1971]

True- George Washington Sandoe was the first.

 

[godofredus]

The Gettysburg Campaign - Friday, June 26, 1863
First Blood - Private George Washington Sandoe, USA

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Less than two months after their victory at Chancellorsville, the Army of Northern Virginia surged northward. As part of Major General Jubal Anderson Early's Division of Ewell's Corps, Confederate Brigadier General John B. Gordon's Brigade arrived in Gettysburg on June 26, 1863. The monument pictured to your right reads that Union private George W. Sandoe of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry "an advance scout of a company of volunteer cavalry", rode unknowingly in the direction of Gordon's men. Private Sandoe had served with the Cavalry for only a few days having enlisted less than a week earlier. Hidden behind brush and bushes, pickets from General Gordon's brigade spotted Sandoe and a companion, ordering them to halt. William Lightner, the fellow cavalryman riding with him, succeeded in turning his horse and racing down the Baltimore Pike to safety. Private Sandoe did not. His horse fell and as he tried to remount and ride off, a Southern soldier shot him in the head. [E]

 

[godofredus]

So obviously, TRUE...

 

[yankee hoorah]

True

 

[C.S.M 1861]

True: "The first Union soldier to die at Gettysburg was killed on July 26, five days before the "First Shot." Private George Sandoe,a native of the Gettysburg area, was killed on Baltimore Pike in a cavalry skirmish with Confederate cavalry screening the advance of Early's Division."

http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/Gettysburg_Facts/Gettysburg_Facts.php

 

[Dbersh]

True

 

[ole]

True. A guy named Sandoe.

 

[Roxanne3888]

true

 

[AUG]

True

 

[reading48]

George W. Sandoe ?????

Edit - While that was the name of the first Union soldier to die at Gettysburg, the question didn't ask for his name. It asked whether it was True or False that he died on June 26, 1863.

Hoosier