Trivia 4-10-2020 & Bonuses

[Trivia Master]

I was born in Virginia, graduated from a legendary military institute, studied law and taught mathematics at my alma mater but, unlike my more famous contemporary, would never obtain the rank of general. This was most likely due to a conviction for being drunk on duty. One of my brothers held similar positions with another famous infantry regiment. Wounded in action, I would survive the war and be admitted to the bar and elected to the state legislature and the US Congress. Who am I?

credit: @stuart1861

Bonus: Which Confederate regiment at Shiloh had a company recruited from a Northern state? Name the regimnent and the Northern state that the recruits were from?

credit: @Ole Miss

Easter Bonus:
Before making a charge in a particularly savage battle, I made the statement, "I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier."
Who am I and what "fight" was I referring to ?

credit: @warbird43

 

[hughes]

Robert Mayo

BONUS: 15th Alabama, Illinois Company, Illinois (with some from PA and MN)

EASTER BONUS: Abner Perrin at Spotsylvania Courthouse

Edit - I can find no reference to the 15th Alabama either fighting at Shiloh or having a company recruited from a Northern state.

hoosier

 

[stuart1861]

- My question, thanks.

Bonus: 15th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company G (the "Illinois Company") included men from Illinois, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.

Easter Bonus: Abner Monroe Perrin, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Main Question: U.S. Congressman Robert Murphy Mayo
Easter Bonus Question: Brig. General Abner Monroe Perrin - Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

 

[ErnieMac]

Easter Bonus:
Who am I? Abner Monroe Perrin.
What "fight" was I referring to? Spotsylvania Court House.

Edit - Answer repeated in subsequent post.

hoosier

 

[Brenal]

Bonus:
Not sure that it counted as a Northern State at the time but Co. C of the 33rd Tennessee were men from Calloway County, Kentucky.

Battle Unit Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Easter Bonus:
Abner Monroe Perrin.
The fight at the Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania Court House.May 12th 1864.

“I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier.”

Another installment in the series “Tales from the Tombstone” Unfortunately, the Confederate officer who made the statement in the title died shortly after making it, pierced by seven bu…

emergingcivilwar.com

Edit - I will accept this answer to the bonus question. Kentucky officially remained in the Union and parts of it are as far north as the places in Illinois from which Company G of the 15th Tennessee were recruited, so I will consider it a Northern state for the purposes of this question.

hoosier

 

[Wallyfish]

Robert Murphy Mayo


Tough question source


First bonus.
15th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry - Company G 34 men were from Illinois
Source Illinois men fought at Shiloh


Easter bonus.

Abner Monroe Perrin - Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864.
Source

 

[Ole Miss]

Robert Murphy Mayo
Easter Bonus
1) Abner Monroe Perrin
2) Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Regards
David

 

[ErnieMac]

Main Question:
Who am I? Robert Murphy Mayo.

Robert Murphy Mayo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Easter Bonus:
Who am I? Abner Monroe Perrin.
What "fight" was I referring to? Spotsylvania Court House.

Abner Monroe Perrin

Confederate General Abner Monroe Perrin of South Carolina

civilwarintheeast.com

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Bonus: Company G, "The Illinois Company", of the 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry

Easter Bonus: Abner Monroe Perrin was referring to The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

 

[ErnieMac]

Bonus:
Which Confederate regiment at Shiloh had a company recruited from a Northern state? 15th Tennessee Infantry, Company G.
Name the regimnent and the Northern state that the recruits were from? Illinois.

Egypt’s 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry | Little Egypt in the Civil War

 

[Mike Serpa]

The easy one first - Bonus - CSA BG Abner M. Perrin at Spotsylvania Court House.

 

[WJC]

QUOTE="Trivia Master, post: 2227347, member: 6319"]
I was born in Virginia, graduated from a legendary military institute, studied law and taught mathematics at my alma mater but, unlike my more famous contemporary, would never obtain the rank of general. This was most likely due to a conviction for being drunk on duty. One of my brothers held similar positions with another famous infantry regiment. Wounded in action, I would survive the war and be admitted to the bar and elected to the state legislature and the US Congress. Who am I?

credit: @stuart1861[/QUOTE]
Robert Murphy Mayo (1836-1896), VMI class of 1857.
Source: "Robert Murphy Mayo", Historical Rosters Database, Virginia Military Institute. <https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters/record.php?ID=637>

Bonus: Which Confederate regiment at Shiloh had a company recruited from a Northern state? Name the regimnent and the Northern state that the recruits were from?

credit: @Ole Miss

15th Tennessee Infantry. Company G (aka 'the Illinois Company') included a number of soldiers from southern Illinois and Indiana.
Source: David R. Zimring, To Live and Die in Dixie: Native Northerners Who Fought for the Confederacy. (Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004), p. 159.
[Quote}Easter Bonus:
Before making a charge in a particularly savage battle, I made the statement, "I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier."
Who am I and what "fight" was I referring to ?

credit: @warbird43
[/QUOTE]
Abner Monroe Perrin (1827-1864).
Source: "Abner Monroe Perrin", American Battlefield Trust. <https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/abner-monroe-perrin>

Edit - No answer given to the part of the question that asked about the "fight" to which Perrin was referring.

hoosier

 

[FarawayFriend]

Regular question

I guess you are Robert Murphy Mayo

Source

 

[FarawayFriend]

Easter Bonus

1)You are Abner Monroe Perrin.
2) The fight was a counterattack in the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Perrin's Brigade was called in to stem the Union breakthrough at the "Bloody Angle" on May 12th.

Source

 

[captaindrew]

Easter Bonus: Abner Monroe Perrin, Spotsylvania

 

[General Casey]

Robert Murphy Mayo

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Murphy_Mayo

Bonus: 15th Tennessee Infantry, which had a company comprised of men from Illinois

Source: http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cwtn15g.html

Easter Bonus: Abner Perrin, who made the statement as his brigade into action at the Mule Shoe at the Battle of Spotsylvania.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/emergi...a-live-major-general-or-a-dead-brigadier/amp/

 

[captaindrew]

Bonus: Company G of the 15th Tennessee Infantry was nicknamed the "Illinois Company" had members from Northern Kentucky and Southern Illinois https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CTN0015RI and https://tngenweb.org/civilwar/15th-tennessee-infantry-regiment/

 

[Wallyfish]

Illinois 34 men in Co G source

Just a bit of clarification on the 15th Tn. Wiki has men from Pa, Mn and Illinois in co G. I have sound several sources like the one above that supports 34 men of Co G were from Illinois. The question asks for a state, not states. Since Company G was called Illinois Company, I am standing by my original answer but with this clarification as the men were not from one state in that Company.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bonus

I had no luck with this one. I searched for hours with every variation of the words I can think of but came up empty. The only thing I could find was that a lot of "Galvanized Rebs" (yankees in Confederate Service) had asked to serve under Cleburne - but I could not find the regiment, let alone the company.

Therefore I pass on this one.