Trivia 2-26-19 Super Recruiter

[hughes]

Edward Wild

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Alvin Peterson Hovey. His recruits were known as "Hovey's babies"

Source - The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Warfare

https://books.google.com/books?id=m...il war Union recruits called "babies"&f=false

 

[lelliott19]

Alvin Peterson Hovey (6 September 1821 – 23 November 1891)
https://www.historycentral.com/Bio/UGENS/USAHovey.html

 

[hoosier]

No idea whatsoever.

 

[Soldier Boy]

Thomas Francis Meagher

Source: http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Meagher

 

[ami]

Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovey
https://www.historycentral.com/Bio/UGENS/USA-Hovey.html