Trivia #28 Ration (7/28/2014)

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What ration did the 51st Pennsylvania demand restored before taking the Lower Bridge over Antietam Creek?
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[ErnieMac]

Whiskey.

 

[hoosier]

Their liquor ration.

 

[adisciu9]

Their whiskey ration (which they got back)

 

[chellers]

whiskey

 

[IcarusPhoenix]

Whiskey, a ration that had previously been suspended by their brigade commander (Brigadier General Ferrero).

 

[drezac]

Wikipedia Battle of Antietam: The 51st Pennsylvania was promised that their whiskey ration would be returned if they were successful.

 

[DickWilliams]

Their whiskey ration

 

[Tumbleweed]

Whiskey

 

[Eagle eye]

Their whiskey ration.

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

Whiskey (liquor ration)

 

[Stony]

51st Pennsylvania, who, with adequate artillery support and a promise that a recently canceled whiskey ration would be restored if they were successful,

 

[csb1971]

Whiskey

 

[AUG]

Whiskey

 

[Nathanb1]

Whiskey!

 

[Littlestown]

whiskey

 

[godofredus]

Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's brigade along the creek bank south of the bridge. Three times, Sturgis ordered the former New York City dance instructor to take the bridge along Nagle's line of approach.

Ferrero formed his brigade in a cornfield near a bend in the creek, immediately west of the Lower Bridge Road. The 51st Pennsylvania was in front, followed by the 51st New York, 21st Massachusetts and the untried 35th Massachusetts. 'It is General Burnside's special request that the two Fifty-firsts take the bridge,' Ferrerro shouted. 'Will you do it

Corporal Lewis Patterson of Company 1, 51st Pennsylvania, a known teetotaler, shattered the ensuing silence with, 'Will you give us our whiskey, Colonel, if we take it?' (The Pennsylvanians had had their liquor ration cut for misconduct on the march.)

'Yes, by God!' cried Ferrero. 'You shall have as much as you want, if you take the bridge.' He added that he would see to it if he had to send back to New York to get the whiskey and pay for it out of his own pocket.

 

[ole]

Whiskey.

 

[LZRD WZRD]

Whiskey

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Whiskey ration.