Trivia 4-4-16 Identify

[Trivia Master]

A 64-pounder was located on the left flank battery of the fort depicted below.

Name the fort, battery commander, and nickname the soldiers gave to the 64-pounder.

credit: @chellers

 

[GELongstreet]

Fort Holt in Kentucky, the battery commander (Battery D, 1st Illinois "Light" Artillery; also called McAllister's Battery after Cpt. Edward McAllister) was Lt. George J. Wood and the gun was the Lady Grant.

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

A 64-pounder was located on the left flank battery of the fort depicted below.
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Name the fort, battery commander, and nickname the soldiers gave to the 64-pounder.

credit: @chellers

Fort- Fort Holt (KY)
Battery Commander- U. S. Grant
Gun nickname- 'Lady Grant' (which I think was a James rifle (named for the modification process turning a smoothbore to a rifled gun by Charles James)

Edit - See edit to post # 30.

Hoosier

 

[kholland]

Fort Holt, Kentucky had 2 64 pounders commanded by Captain Edward McAllister. The one was nicknamed Lady Grant.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Fort Holt KY on the bank opposite Cairo. The 64-pounder was named Lady Grant. The officer named in O.R. as commanding the gun itself was Lt. Wood (George probably).

I think Wood was in under the overall commander Colonel John Cook, 7th Illinois Infantry, who is the author of the official report, a paragraph of which is quoted above. However, Cook seemed to refer to the 7th Ill. "officer of the day" as having ordered the batteries at Holt - a chap named Mathie, Co. F. as shown in a footnote to Grant's Memoirs.

This is also given in "The Timberclads in the Civil War" by Myron J Smith, Jr:

 

[MRB1863]

Fort Holt, Kentucky. The 64-pounder, "Lady Grant," located in battery on the extreme left. JOHN COOK, Colonel, Commanding Fourth Brigade.

Edit - See edit to post # 30.

Hoosier

 

[Copperhead-mi]

1. Fort Holt
2. Captain Edward McAlister - some sources spell it McAllister
3. Lady Grant

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Probably overthinking but the "battery commander" at Fort Holt was doubtless different men during the war so I've chosen to answer based upon when the blessed gun was actually fired.

But who is the "battery commander" anyway? The chain of command authority seems to run from Cook, to the officer of the day (Mathie, who commanded the battery to fire) to Wood - the Lt. actually in charge of the gun. I suppose it must be Wood, given OR

Edit - That's a good supposition.

Note that the question did not specify that the answer had to be based on who was in command on the day the gun was fired. I really would not have wanted to have to research who all the different officers of the day at Fort Holt were during the time the Lady Grant was there.

Hoosier

 

[Northern Light]

Fort Holt, KY, commanded by Col. J. Cook. Lady Grant.

This one was a real challenge, Chellers!

 

[FarawayFriend]

The fort is Fort Holt, Kentucky, opposite Cairo.

As for the battery commander I'm not quite sure which name is requested. It could be Captain McAllister:

From the Papers of Ullysses S. Grant, April-September 1861, p. 347
https://books.google.de/books?id=Be...age&q=Mcallisters artillery fort holt&f=false

But as you were asking especially for the 64 pounder cannon, then I think you may also refer to Lt. Wood of McAllister's artillery:
"The 64-pounders, commanded by Lieutenant Wood (McAllister's artillery), was managed with marked ability, although laboring under great disadvantages, the piece being only provided with ammunition for 32-pounders"
https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/007/0007

The nickname of the 64-pounder cannon was Lady Grant

From the book "Grant moves South" by Bruce Catton
https://books.google.de/books?id=GF...nepage&q=fort holt left flank battery&f=false

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

- Fort Holt
- Lt. Wood
- 'Lady Grant'

 

[Reb]

Fort Holt, 1st Illinois Light Infantry, Battery D, Captain E. McAllister, Lieutenant Wood, "Lady Grant"

 

[Stony]

1. Fort Holt, Kentucky.
2. Battery Commander-Lieutenant Wood (McAllister's Artillery)
The 64-pounders, commanded by Lieutenant Wood (McAllister's artillery), was managed with marked ability, although laboring under great disadvantages, the piece being only provided with ammunition for 32-pounders.
3. Cannon-Lady Grant
source-Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
source-The papers of US Grant vol 3 page 247
source-Harper's Weekly Jan 25, 1862
source-//books.google.com/books?id=gMhDtP_rwdIC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Who+was+the+battery+commander+of+"lady+grant"&source=bl&
source-http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S1-V07-C017R.html#e4

 

[JOHN42768]

Fort Pulaski, Col. Charles Olmstead & James Rifle

 

[NFB22]

Fort Holt's 64-pounder was nicknamed the "Lady Grant". The best I could find for a battery commander would be a Lt. Wood of McAllister's Artillery

 

[Brenal]

Fort Holt
Lieutenant Wood (McAllister's Artillery)
Lady Grant

 

[1stMN]

Fort Holt, commander was Col. John Cook, 64-pounder was named 'Lady Grant.'

 

[rhettbutler1865]

A 64-pounder was located on the left flank battery of the fort depicted below.
View attachment 96400

Name the fort, battery commander, and nickname the soldiers gave to the 64-pounder.

credit: @chellers

Fort Holt, Kentucky...Captain McAllister commanded the battery, Lt. Wood commanded the 64-pounder nicknamed Lady Grant.

 

[adisciu9]

Ft. Holt, US Grant, "Lady Grant."

 

[lelliott19]

That is "Fort Holt" Kentucky. According to the caption in Harper's Weekly, Jan 25, 1862, the fort was located "opposite Cairo." http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/january/fort-holt.htm

The battery commander was Lieut Wood of McAllister's artillery

The 64-pounders, commanded by Lieutenant Wood (McAllister's artillery), was managed with marked ability, although laboring under great disadvantages, the piece being only provided with ammunition for 32-pounders.​

Source: O.R. Dec 1 1861
Report of Col. John Cook, Seventh Illinois Infantry.
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE, Fort Holt, Ky., Sunday, December 1, 1861.
http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S1-V07-C017R.html#e

The nickname given to the 64 pdr was "Lady Grant"
See OR source above.