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What was the area of the Crater, Virginia, used before being preserved as a Civil War Battlefield by the National Park Service?

credit: @sarladaise

Bonus:
Mason Mathews Patrick, 13 Dec 1863 - 29 Jan 1942. What is his relationship to the Civil War?

credit: @Seduzal

Easter Bonus:
After the first Battle of Bull Run, the Union army had retreated back to the capital. President Lincoln rode a carriage towards the union camps to see and encourage the "boys", on the road he saw an officer standing who he recognized, he asked the officer to come aboard and direct his driver towards the officer's camp.

Who was the officer and what was his rank?

credit: @57th Indiana Infantry

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Main question: The Crater battlefield itself was turned into a golf course before it was brought under the management of the National Park Service in 1936.

Bonus: His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union.[2] His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy

Easter Bonus: William Tecumseh Sherman, Colonel
 
Part of a golf course. Oh my!


Bonus:

Patrick's father, Alfred Spicer, was a Confederate surgeon.

But the interesting thing is that and his paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union (I'm guessing that this is before West Virginia became a State in 1863), and His maternal grandfather, Mason Matthews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy.

Easter Bonus:

William Tecumseh Sherman was a Colonel commanding the 13th US Infantry Regiment at First Manassas.
 
It was a bivouac area for transient troops.
History of the Petersburg National Battlefield by Wallace, Lee, Conway and Martin. Page 127
https://archive.org/stream/historyofpetersb00wall#page/n137/mode/2up/search/The+Crater


Bonus:
His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War.His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime.

Easter Bonus:
Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman

Edit - You have provided a source in support of your answer to the first question, so I will give you credit for a correct answer.

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Bonus==== Father and two Grandfathers { Wikipedia}

Mason Mathews Patrick was born in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia on December 13, 1863 to Alfred Spicer Patrick and Virginia (Mathews) Patrick.[1] His family was prominent in Greenbrier County. His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union.[2] His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy.[3] In Lewisburg, Patrick attended local public and private schools and on graduation taught for two years at his former high school.
 
Bonus: General Mason Matthew Patrick's relationship is: His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union. His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy.
 
Thursday: "As many of you know the Crater battlefield itself was turned into a golf course before it was brought under the management of the National Park Service in 1936." Source: http://cwmemory.com/2011/01/09/developing-historic-land-to-save-it-in-petersburg/

Bonus
: Per wikipedia article, "Mason Patrick," "His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union.[2] His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy."

Easter bonus: William Tecumseh Sherman, colonel at that time.
https://books.google.com/books?id=n...isit union camps after first bull run&f=false
(Abraham Lincoln: A Life, by Michael Burlingame, p. 186)
 
The area around the Crater was built into an 18 hole golf course prior to control of the NPS.

http://cwmemory.com/2006/11/22/the-1937-crater-reenactment/

Patrick bonus. His father was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union. His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy.

Easter bonus. He was William Tecumseh Sherman who was a Colonel at that time.


https://books.google.com/books?id=F...cumseh Sherman guides lincoln in 1861&f=false
 
Question 1:
The crater was, for a short time, used as a mass grave. After the war it was excavated and then it became a tourist attraction. At one point it was part of a golf course with many claiming that the crater itself was “America’s most famous sand trap”. Fortunately the NPS came in and took possession of it in 1926.
Civil War Road Trip, Volume II: A Guide to Virginia & Maryland, Volume 2, page 354.

Question 2:
His father, Alfred Spicer Patrick, was a surgeon serving in the Confederate States Army. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Spicer Patrick served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War on the side of the Union. He material grandfather Mason Matthews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during the war serving on the side of the Confederacy.
His fathers: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16549011.
Paternal Grandfather: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107789520
Maternal Grandfather: Source was wikipedia

Question 3:
Officer & Rank: William T. Sherman (Colonel) Although - President Lincoln was impressed by Sherman while visiting the troops on July 23 and promoted him to brigadier general of volunteers (effective May 17, 1861) this per Wikipedia - which means when he was in the carriage actually riding with Lincoln he a Colonel - although since the effective date was May of 1861 he was, unknowingly, a man with a star .
Worthy Opponents: William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston: Antagonists in War Friends in Peace - Chapter 8.
 
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Golf course


Bonus:

His father was Alfred Spicer Patrick, surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry.


Easter Bonus:

Trivia question every now and then.
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First bonus: Patrick's father was a surgeon in the Confederate Army

Edit - I visited the Crater a decade or more ago.

I was expecting something much bigger than what remains of the crater today. In fact, when I first saw it, the thought that came to my mind was that it looked like nothing more than a fairly deep grass bunker on a golf course.

The park ranger never told me that, in fact, it once was part of a golf course. :O o:

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Regular Question:
"....the Crater battlefield itself was turned into a golf course before it was brought under the management of the National Park Service in 1936. Ironically, it may have been the development of this land that helped to save it at a time when city managers pushed commercial development." http://cwmemory.com/2011/01/09/developing-historic-land-to-save-it-in-petersburg/


Bonus:

Maj. General Mason Matthews Patrick US Army Air Corps WWI had numerous connections to the Civil War. There are likely more relationships, but I assume the ones below will suffice to demonstrate his "connection to the Civil War."

1. Most directly, his father was Dr. Alfred Spicer Patrick who earned his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1853. On May 8, 1861, he enlisted as a Private Co H 22nd Virginia Infantry and, after serving on hospital duty, and as an Asst Surgeon, was promoted to regimental Surgeon (appointed and confirmed Feb 2 1864; to rank from Aug 7, 1863) of the 22nd Virginia Infantry. He was paroled May 10, 1865 at Charleston WV. Source: Fold 3 carded records for A S Patrick in Confederate Officers and https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16549011

2. MG Mason Matthews Patrick's uncle (father's brother) was John M. Patrick, a private Co H "Kanawaha Riflemen" 22nd Virginia Infantry who was captured at Cold Harbor June 3 1864 and killed in the railroad accident at Shohola PA on July 15, 1864, while being conveyed to Elmira as a prisoner of war. Source: Fold 3 records for John M Patrick and https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107789520

3. MG Mason M Patrick's paternal grandfather was Dr. Spicer Patrick. During the war Dr. Patrick was elected to the House of Delegates of the Provisional Government of Virginia, from Kanawha county, and served as such for the year 1862. After the creation of the State of West Virginia in 1862, he was elected to the House of Delegates for the years 1863 and 1865, and was chosen as Speaker of that body for the session commencing June 20th, 1863. He was elected to the Senate of West Virginia from the Kanawha District for the session commencing January, 1870, and served the full term. He died 1884. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107789520

4. MG Mason M Patrick's uncle (mother's brother) was Capt. Alexander F Matthews who served as aide-de-camp to Confederate Brig Genl Henry A Wise. wiki/Mason_Mathews


5. MG Mason M Patrick's maternal grandfather was Mason Matthews. Though living in the Union [West Virginia], Mathews spent most of the civil war years in Richmond, representing Greenbrier County in the Virginia House of Delegates. His home in Lewisburg was raided during the 1863 Union Army occupation. In a letter to a son he recalled,"[t]hey appropriated everything they wished when they went, many fared worse than I did."
wiki/Mason_Mathews


Easter Bonus:

William Tecumseh Sherman who was at the time a Colonel commanding the 3rd Brigade 1st Division (Daniel Tylers Div) Army of Northeastern Virginia. http://civilwardailygazette.com/lincoln-talks-to-the-troops-csa-invades-the-north-sort-of/
 
Answer: Golf Course.
Bonus: Father (Arthur Spicer Patrick) was a Confederate surgeon. Paternal Grandfather (Spicer Patrick) was a member of the Virginia House of Delegate and Virginia State Senate on the Federal side. Maternal grandfather (Mason Mathews) was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (Confederate).
Easter Bonus: William Tecumseh Sherman.
 
1. The crater where 1000 union troops were killed or wounded became a private tourist attraction shortly after the war and eventually part of a golf course until the Park Service bought the land at auction in 1926.
source- https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=who+bought+the+land+around+the+crater+in+virginia+after+the+civil+war&sou
National Parks Magazine Autumn 2005 page 29
source-https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002915600f;view=1up;seq=48 pages 31-36

2. Mason's dad was a surgeon who served as such in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather, Spicer Patrick, also a surgeon, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia State Senate during the Civil War, on the side of the Union. His maternal grandfather, Mason Mathews, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during wartime, on the side of the Confederacy
source-wiki

3. William Tecumseh Sherman and his rank was Colonel of the 13th US Regular Infantry Regiment.
source-
The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln page 67.
edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Ruar
https://books.google.com/books?id=E...is+carriage+after+1st+bull+run&source=bl&ots=
 
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