Trivia 8-3-18 & bonus

[Henry Brown]

main: Cyrus McCormick

bonus: john gibbon and joshua chamberlain (guessing)

Edit - I can find no source indicating that Gibbon's promotion was considered to be a battlefield promotion.

hoosier

 

[JOHN42768]

Main:
Wealthy industrialist Lewis Brooks, of Rochester, N.Y., donates $25,000 and his extensive collection of zoological, mineralogical, geological and botanical specimens to the University. In 1877, Robinson Hall is altered to house the Lewis Brooks Museum. The museum is dismantled in 1936.

Edit - Brooks was an industrialist and he did donate a good deal of money to Washington & Lee, but I can find no source indicating either that he was a trustee or that a statue of him was ever erected on campus.

hoosier

 

[WJC]

Question - The chapel at Washington & Lee University features a statue of the university's former president, Robert E. Lee in repose. Another statue on the campus is frequently mistaken for a statue of Lee, but the statue actually depicts an industrialist, trustee, and benefactor of the school who was a contemporary of Lee.
Whom does this other statue depict?
credit: @hoosier

Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884), American inventor and industrialist.

Bonus: Only two generals were ever promoted on the field by U.S. Grant. Who were they?
credit: @Jimklag

Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) and Emory Upton (1839-1881).

 

[JOHN42768]

Bonus: Joshua Chamberlain was the first officer to receive a battlefield promotion from Grant. He received a promotion to brigadier general on June 20, 1864. Emory Upton was the other officer

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Friday question - Cyrus McCormick

Friday Bonus -
1. Emory Upton (It appears that Grant's May 10, 1864 battlefield promotion of Upton was unauthorized. Grant would not receive authorization from the War Dept. until May 16, 1864 to conduct battlefield promotions)

2. Joshua Chamberlain (June 18, 1864)

 

[sarladaise]

Cyrus McCormick
Bonus:
Emory Upton and Joshua L. Chamberlain
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/02/15/book-review-emory-upton-misunderstood-reformer/
"Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant", page 320

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bonus:

That was surprisingly difficult for me! Wild guess: Emory Upton and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain?

From "Personal Memories of U.S. Grant:

"By this authority I conferred the rank of brigadier-general upon Upton on the spot, and this act was confirmed by the President. Upton had been badly wounded in this fight."

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2001.05.0019:chapter=52

"Colonel J. L. Chamberlain, of the 20th Maine, was wounded on the 18th. He was gallantly leading his brigade at the time, as he had been in the habit of doing in all the engagements in which he had previously been engaged. He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct. On this occasion, however, I promoted him on the spot, and forwarded a copy of my order to the War Department, asking that my act might be confirmed and Chamberlain's name sent to the Senate for confirmation without any delay. This was done, and at last a gallant and meritorious officer received partial justice at the hands of his government, which he had served so faithfully and so well."

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper...019:chapter=56&highlight=promoted,chamberlain

 

[lelliott19]

Cyrus Hall McCormick (15 February 1809 – 13 May 1884)

BONUS:
Emory Upton (27 August 1839 – 15 March 1881)
[At Spotsylvania May 12, 1864] Upton had gained an important advantage, but a lack in others of the spirit and dash possessed by him lost it to us. Before leaving Washington I had been authorized to promote officers on the field for special acts of gallantry. By this authority I conferred the rank of brigadier-general upon Upton on the spot, and this act was confirmed by the President. http://www.historyofwar.org/sources/acw/grant/chapter52d.html

Joshua Chamberlain (8 September 1828 – 24 February 1914)
[At Petersburg June 18, 1864] He [Chamberlain] was gallantly leading his brigade at the time, as he had been in the habit of doing in all the engagements in which he had previously been engaged. He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct. On this occasion, however, I promoted him on the spot, and forwarded a copy of my order to the War Department, asking that my act might be confirmed and Chamberlain's name sent to the Senate for confirmation without any delay. http://www.historyofwar.org/sources/acw/grant/chapter56d.html

 

[Mike Serpa]

Cyrus McCormick and I don't have the bonus answers.

 

[mofederal]

http://memorialsandshrines.blogspot.com/2013/05/statue-of-cyrus-mccormick-pauline.html

Cyrus H. McCormick

Bonus:

https://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/upton-gets-his-star-eventually-part-2s/

Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and Emory Upton

 

[Mint Julep]

Cyrus McCormick

 

[Zella]

Washington and Lee University Statue:
Cyrus McCormick
http://campusmap.wlu.edu/html/BLD_2013090576916.html

Don't know the answer to the bonus question but looking forward to learning it!

 

[hoosier]

Bonus: One was Joshua Chamberlain.

I think the other answer that is desired here is Emory Upton. Grant's own memoirs state that he issued a battlefield promotion to Upton as of May 10, 1864. Although at least one website indicates that it is questionable whether Grant actually had the authority to issue such a battlefield promotion as of that date, I would think that Grant's memoirs constitute an acceptable source in support of this answer.

 

[MC44]

Lewis Brooks

Bonus: Joshua Chamberlain and Emory Upton

Edit - See edit to post # 22.

hoosier

 

[Schwallanscher]

regular:

cyrus hall mc cormick

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bonus:

1. emory upton
2. joshua 'don't call me' lawrence chamberlain

source #75​

 

[ami]

Cyrus McCormick

http://campusmap.wlu.edu/html/BLD_2013090576916.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/ind...ersity_Lexington_Virginia.jpg&oldid=254751873

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyrus_McCormick&oldid=845741176

bonus: Emory Upton and Joshua L. Chamberlain

source: wikipedia