Trivia Game # 29 - Week 6

[hoosier]

Sorry to be posting this week's questions a little late. Had some computer trouble earlier today.

Here are the questions for Week 6.

26. On 2/15/62, the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson, under the command of Brig. Gen. John Floyd, made a breakthrough on the right of Grant's encircling line, opening an escape route to Nashville. Who, as Floyd's second-in-command, talked Floyd into pulling his troops back into the fort, where they were subsequently captured?

27. Lt. Stephen Brown of the 13th Vermont Infantry was ordered to give up his sword (but not relieved of duty) as a result of an incident of perceived insubordination on the march to Gettysburg. What did Lt. Brown carry into the battle instead of his sword?

28. By what other name was the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern known?

29. The largest number of Union troops to surrender as the result of one Civil War battle was approximately 12,500. Where and in what year did the battle take place? (Your answer must correctly identify both the location and the year to receive credit.)

30. (Two point question) According to the 1860 census, which two states had slave populations larger than their free populations? (Your answer must correctly identify both states to receive credit.)

Answers to the Week 6 questions are due by 6 PM Saturday, April 2.

Good luck!

 

[aggie80]

26. General Gideon Pillow

27. A camp hatchet

28. The Battle of Pea Ridge

29. Harpers Ferry changed hands eight times—one of those on September 15, 1862, when Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson surrounded the fort and captured some 12,500 Union soldiers, the largest single Union surrender of the war.

30. Mississippi and South Carolina

 

[sarladaise]

26. Gideon Pillow
27. camp hatchet
28. Pea Ridge
29. Harpers Ferry, Sept. 15, 1862
30. South Carolina, Mississippi

 

[traveller]

26. General S. B. Buckner INCORRECT
27. A Hatchet
28. Pea Ridge
29. Harpers Ferry 1862
30. South Carolina and Mississippi

 

[cindyscoops]

Game #29-Week 6

26. Gideon Pillow

27. a camp hatchet

28. Battle of Pea Ridge

29. Harpers Ferry, 15 Sept 1862

30. South Carolina, Mississippi

 

[dawna]

26. Brigadier-General Gideon Johnson Pillow

27. A camp hatchet

28. Battle of Pea Ridge

29. Harper's Ferry, 1862

30. Mississippi & South Carolina

 

[bill_torrens]

26. Gideon Pillow

27. A hatchet

28. Pea Ridge

29. Harper's Ferry, 1862.

30. South Carolina & Mississippi

 

[ewc]

26- Brigadier General Gideon J Pillow, who like Floyd, made his escape from Ft Donelson, leaving junior Brigadier General Simon B Buckner in command to surrender to Grant. Of Pillow, Grant told Buckner 'We're glad he got away. We want him in command of you fellows.'

27- Lt Stephen Brown, at Gettysburg released from arrest for allowing his men to fill their canteens on the march, against orders (saying '**** your orders!') had no sword (still in possession of the provost.) He carried a hatchet in its staid. The 13th Vermont monument on Cemetery Ridge is a statue of Lt Brown, hatchet at his feet.
http://www.brotherswar.com/Gettysburg-8Pic-12.htm

28- Battle of Pea Ridge in Northern parlance. The Confederates refer to the battle as Elkhorn Tavern.

29- Siege of Harper's Ferry and surrender 15 Sept, '62, a stage of Lee's Maryland Campaign ended at Antietam.

30- Slave pop. exceeds white pop.- Mississippi & South Carolina.

 

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the Week 6 questions.

26. Fort Donelson would have been lost anyway, but the 10,000-odd Confederate troops in the garrison might have escaped had not Gen. Gideon Pillow talked Floyd into pulling them back into the fort.

27. When Brown led his troops into battle on July 3, he brandished a camp hatchet, which he had picked up from around the campfire after having been relieved of his sword.

28. The Battle of Elkhorn Tavern is also commonly known as the Battle of Pea Ridge.

29. Approximately 12,500 Union troops surrendered to Stonewall Jackson's troops at Harpers Ferry in 1862. It was the largest number of U.S. soldiers to surrender as the result of a single action until Bataan in World War II.

30. According to the 1860 U.S. Census, Mississippi (436,631 slave, 354,674 free) and South Carolina (402,406 slave, 301,302 free) had larger slave populations than free populations.

We have four co-winners of Game # 29, all with perfect scores of 36 points each. Congratulations to Aggie80, Bill_torrens, Cindyscoops, and ewc.

The scoreboard for Game #29:

Aggie80 36
Bill_torrens 36
Cindyscoops 36
ewc 36
Sarladaise 28
Dawna 27
Traveller 24
Texaswildcat 16
Raggedrebel 12
dbardes87 12
Darrin365 6
Sockknitter 5