Game 65, Week 1, Quiz A

[Glorybound]

Answers due by 6pm central, Weds, 4/7/10

All questions concerning the organization within armies are pertaining to the Federal army of the Civil War, at full strength.

1……Generally how many infantry divisions comprise a Corps?


2….. For the most part, the military structure of the army of which foreign nation was used as a model to form the basis for the organization of the US army?



3……What rank of officer usually commands a Corps?


4……..Which branch of the army is responsible for examining the topography of the land, building bridges, and other military structures?



5….. Why was there a shortage of arms for Northern soldiers at the beginning of the mobilization in the spring and early summer of 1861?

 

[prroh]

Answers due by 6pm central, Weds, 4/7/10

All questions concerning the organization within armies are pertaining to the Federal army of the Civil War, at full strength.

1……Generally how many infantry divisions comprise a Corps? Three


2….. For the most part, the military structure of the army of which foreign nation was used as a model to form the basis for the organization of the US army? France


3……What rank of officer usually commands a Corps? Major General in the North LT Grnl in the South

4……..Which branch of the army is responsible for examining the topography of the land, building bridges, and other military structures? Engineers


5….. Why was there a shortage of arms for Northern soldiers at the beginning of the mobilization in the spring and early summer of 1861?

In the closing days of the Buchanan Administration, there was a massive switch of weapons from northern armories to southern one by orgers from the War Dept.

 

[samgrant]

1. the number of division in a corps varied from 2 to 4, though usually there were 3

2. France

3. Major General, usually

4. Engineers (The Corps of Topographical Engineers was incorporated into the Corps of Engineers in 1863)

5. Generally, the number of volunteers far exceeded the number of arms available.
During previous years of peace, nearly seven hundred thousand muskets had been ordinarily on hand in the various Government arsenals, but even this number had been allowed to diminish, so that the store of muskets of all kinds, on October 30, 1860, was about five hundred and thirty thousand, distributed among the arsenals of the country, there being at no one place more than one hundred and thirty thousand. As this supply of arms was applicable to the army, the navy, the marine corps, and the militia, it was evidently not great, especially in view of the emergency. Furthermore, there had been a sale of a considerable number of old-pattern muskets, but this sale was stopped, in order not to deplete the supply too seriously.
During 1860, the apportionment of Government arms to the various States for arming their militia was carried on under an old law, that of 1808, but, on account of the small number on hand, only 14,615 were distributed. The allotments were made in proportion to the number of senators and representatives in Congress. Distribution of equipments, other ordnance, and ordnance stores was also made on the same basis to the States.
By the latter part of 1860, there were thirteen arsenals, two armories, and one depot for the manufacture and safe-keeping of ordnance and ordnance stores.
As showing the distribution of ordnance supplies at the outbreak of the war, it may be stated that there were stored in arsenals in the South about one hundred and thirty-five thousand small arms of all patterns. These fell into the hands of the Confederates, depleting considerably the already small supply for the use of the Union armies.

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[Stonewall1982]

1.) 3-5 divisions

2.) France

3.) Major-General

4.) Army Corps of Engineers

5.) ?

 

[Ellsworth avenger]

ans. 1. Three Divisions
2. French
3.Major General
4. Corps of Engineers
5. War is not long after the change from flint lock ignition system to pecussion ignition, along with confederate siezures at Harper's Ferry and Baton Rouge.

 

[Oxkern]

1. 3
2. France
3. Major General
4. Pioneers
5. Most armouries were in seceding states and had been seized

 

[hoosier]

1. Two infantry divisions in a corps.

2. France

3. Major general

4. The Corps of Engineers

5. Essentially, the shortage resulted because the size of the army was being increased faster than new equipment could be purchased.

 

[Pvt Miles]

Trivia Answers... Game 65, Week 1, Quiz A

1. Three
2. France
3. Major General
4. Corps of Engineers
5. Many Federal arsenals fell into Confederate hands

Pvt Miles

 

[Glorybound]

1……Generally how many infantry divisions comprise a Corps?
Answer: From two to five.


2….. For the most part, the military structure of the army of which foreign nation was used as a model to form the basis for the organization of the US army?
Answer: France


3……What rank of officer usually commands a Corps?
Answer: Major General


4……..Which branch of the army is responsible for examining the topography of the land, building bridges, and other military structures?
Answer: Engineers



5….. Why was there a shortage of arms for Northern soldiers at the beginning of the mobilization in the spring and early summer of 1861?
Answer: Before he resigned from his position Secretary of War John Floyd transferred large quantities of arms to Southern States, pretty well stripping the Northern arsenals.

 

[Glorybound]

Current game scores, Game 65, Week 1, Quiz A:

Ellsworth Avenger.......5
Hoosier......................5
Oxkern.......................4
Prroh.........................5
Pvt Miles....................5
Samgrant...................5
Stonewall1982............4

 

[Pvt Miles]

Trivia Answers

1. (Just a guess here).....5,000.
2. Approximately 30,000.
3. Winchester. Virginia.
4. Suppy problems, specifically a lack of wagons to transport supplies.
5. July 16, 1861

Pvt. Miles