Trivia Game # 33 - Week 6

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week # 6, the final week of Game # 33.

26. Who was the only Union general to win a battle in which Stonewall Jackson commanded the other side?

27. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Gen. George Meade set up headquarters set up headquarters in a farmhouse belonging to Lydia Leister (who had prudently left town). What road ran next to the Leister house?

28. What Confederate soldier, a private in the 2nd Virginia, was killed on his own father's farm during the Battle of Gettysburg? (I'm looking for last name only. You may cite both his first and last name if you wish, but if you do that and get the first name wrong, you will not receive credit.)

29. Who was the Kansas U.S. Senator who served simultaneously as a U.S. brigadier general? (A word of warning on this question – this man's name does not appear on the list of Union generals in the Resource Center here on CivilWarTalk. Thanks to RivrRat for supplying this question.)

30. (Two point question) In the cavalry, what was a picket pin used for?

Answers to the questions for Week # 6 will be due by 6 PM EDT on Saturday, September 24.

Good luck!

 

[samgrant]

Week 6

26. This would be our old friend and would-be dualist from wk. 2 #10: James J. Shields, was credited with the win at Kernstown, Va. (tho in baseball parlance, Col. Nathan Kimball would get the save as he finished the battle after Shields was injured) (also in that battle was our other old non-french-horn playing friend: Col. Turner Ashby from wk. 3 #14.

27. The Taneytown Road.

28. I'll call him 'Culp' since we are not on a first name basis (why not?). (The story of 'What's-his-name' Culp is disputed in the book These Honored Dead by Thomas A. Desjardin, and by others.)

29. James H. Lane (Jim) (Grim Chieftan), not to be confused with the other James Henry Lane who was a Confederate general.

30. A picket pin was a sort of a spike (about a foot long) with a ring at the end opposite the pointed end. It was driven into the ground and the cavalryman would teather his horse to it while in the field.

 

[traveller]

26. Who was the only Union general to win a battle in which Stonewall Jackson commanded the other side?

Nathan Kimball

27. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Gen. George Meade set up headquarters set up headquarters in a farmhouse belonging to Lydia Leister (who had prudently left town). What road ran next to the Leister house?

Taneytown Road

28. What Confederate soldier, a private in the 2nd Virginia, was killed on his own father's farm during the Battle of Gettysburg? (I'm looking for last name only. You may cite both his first and last name if you wish, but if you do that and get the first name wrong, you will not receive credit.)

Wesley Culp

29. Who was the Kansas U.S. Senator who served simultaneously as a U.S. brigadier general? (A word of warning on this question – this man's name does not appear on the list of Union generals in the Resource Center here on CivilWarTalk. Thanks to RivrRat for supplying this question.)

Samuel Crawford INCORRECT

30. (Two point question) In the cavalry, what was a picket pin used for?

A picket pin was an iron spike with a iron ring attached to its flat end to tie the horse to when not in use.

 

[raggedrebel]

26) James Shields (1st Kernstown)
27) Taneytown Rd.
28) Wesley Culp
29) James Henry Lane
30) It was somewhat like a ten peg except it had a loop at the top. It would be driven into the ground and used to tie up horses like a hitching post would do.
RR

 

[Robert B. Condon]

26. Well, it's First Kernstown, March 23, 1862, the only battle Jackson lost in which he commanded. The answer should be James Shield with the caveat that Shield was wounded the previous day and Colonel Nathan Kimball actually commanded Shield's division on the field. Kimball was not commissioned a brigadier general until April 16, 1862, after the battle.

27. Taneytown Road

28. JOHN Wesley Culp Source: Pfanz, Gettysburg - Culp's Hill and Cemetary Hill, pp. 328-29

29. James Henry Lane

30. The picket pin was approximately 14" long and made of iron. It was somewhat like a tent stake with a ring on top. One end of the trooper's lariat was tied to the ring and the other to the horse. The pin was driven in the ground and held the horse in the area when it was picketed. I guess this was more humane than hobbling the horse.

To borrow from the NBA, I love this game, but sometimes a particular question will bring to mind the words of Winston Churchill, "It is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside and enigma."

 

[Robert B. Condon]

errata - I noticed I left the s off of Shields after I sent the answers so it should be Shields and Shields'

 

[hoosier]

Bumping this thread up to the top.

 

[texaswildcat]

1. BG James Shields

2. Taneytown Road

3. Culp

4. Bailey, Joseph INCORRECT

5. used to tie down a rope attached to the horse so it could graze

 

[ewc]

26- Battle of Kernstown- US Brig Genl Nathan Kimball took over Shields's division when Shields's was wounded by Ashby's cavalry the day before and defeated Jackson's rash attack.

27- Meade's HQ at Gettysburg, Leister house on the Taneytown Road.

28- Culp of Culp's Hill.

29- Kansas Senator and general of the Jayhawkers James Henry Lane.

30- A picket pin's primary purpose is to aid in tethering a horse. It is also a handle to intrenching tools a cavalryman carries and can be used as a shoeing hammer and a clinching iron.

 

[cindyscoops]

Game #33-Week 6

26. James Shields

27. Taneytown Road

28. Culp

29. James Lane

30. Picket pins were used to picket/tether the horse and hold it in one area while not in use. When a picket pin was driven into the ground like a tent stake, the lariat could be tied through the ring at the top.

Cindy Scoops

 

[sarladaise]

26. James Shields
27. Taneytown Road
28. Wesley Culp
29. James Henry Lane
30. iron spike with ring driven into the ground to tether a horse

 

[sockknitter]

26. James Shields


27. Taneytown Road


28. Culp



29. James H. Lane


30. Tethering a horse to a fixed location

 

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 6.

26. My source indicated that Gen. James Shields commanded the Union forces at the Battle of Kernstown, the only Civil War battle Stonewall Jackson lost. However, several of you named Nathan Kimball, who took charge when Shields was wounded.

I was going to reject the answer of Kimball, since he was a colonel, not a general, at the time of the battle, although he did become a general later in the war. However, when I look at the battle summaries on the Resource Center here at CivilWarTalk, I see that our webmaster, Mike, gives Kimball credit for being the principal commander on the Union side.

Never argue with the webmaster. I will give credit for both answers.

27. The Leister house was (and still is) located next to Taneytown Road.

28. Wesley Culp was killed on the land of his own father's farm during the battle.

29. James H. Lane (the Grim Chieftain) was one of the first pair of U.S. Senators elected from Kansas, which officially became a state during the dying days of the Buchanan Administration in January 1861. Arriving in Washington the day after Fort Sumter, Lane quickly organized a guard to help protect the city until Federal troops could be posted. As a result, Abraham Lincoln granted Lane a commission as a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, giving him the authority to raise troops in Kansas. For a brief time, Lane started doing so, thus serving simultaneously as a senator and as an officer in the U.S. Army, but after his numerous enemies in Kansas pointed out that the Constitution forbade anyone doing so, Lane resigned his Army commission.

30. A picket pin, generally made of iron and a foot or so long, was driven into the ground and linked by rope to a horse's halter, so that the horse could graze without straying while the troopers were in bivouac.

Congratulations to the winners of Game # 33, CindyScoops for the First Division and SamGrant for the Second Division, both with perfect scores of 36 points. Another game like that and Sam can move up to the First Division.

The scores at the end of Game # 33:

FIRST DIVISION

CindyScoops 36
RaggedRebel 35
Aggie80 16

SECOND DIVISION

SamGrant 36
Robert B. Condon 35
Sarladaise 33
Sockknitter 27
Texaswildcat 26
ewc 22
TinaInWonderland 16
Calicoboy 14
RivrRat 14
Traveller 10
FSPowers 5

 

[samgrant]

#28

What was the mystery behind the 'last name only' caution on this question?

Was it because, as stories say, that he had a brother on the other side?....etc??? (William?)

What about the 'John' in front of Wesley, that one player listed?

I'm not challenging, but I am curious.

Also, any additional info on the veracity of this disputed story?

 

[hoosier]

My favorite quiz show is "Jeopardy." On "Jeopardy," sometimes they phrase their clues in such a way that, even though the contestant may not know the answer, they can take an educated guess.

When I composed question # 28, I was thinking along the lines of giving people a chance to take a guess. My thinking was that people might figure that, well, there was a lot of fighting around Culp's Hill, and if somebody named Culp had a hill, maybe he had a farm, too, and that might lead them to guess "Culp" as the correct answer.

Of course, if someone is taking a guess on the last name, there is very little chance that they would guess the first name of Wesley. So, to give the guessers a chance, I asked only for the last name.

And I didn't want to penalize anybody who knew that the last name was Culp but guessed wrong on the first name, so I specified that people could give me both first and last name if they wanted to, but they'd better be careful, because if they gave me the wrong first name, I'd have to mark the answer incorrect.

My source said the soldier's name was Wesley Culp, and all but one of those who gave me a first name also said Wesley Culp.

As you pointed out, John B. said it was John Wesley Culp, but he included a source backing his answer. I will normally give credit for any answer for which the player cites a source, unless I can verify that the source doesn't say what the player thought it did.

John B. indicated that his source was Pfanz' book on Gettysburg. Not only did he indicate which book was his source, he even cited the page numbers.

I don't happen to have a copy of that book, but I'm not conscientious enough to go running out to the bookstore to buy myself a copy in order to verify one player's response. I'm trusting John B. on this one.

Sockknitter sent me a link to an interesting article indicating that Wesley Culp may actually have been killed on his uncle's land, rather than his father's, but my source said he was killed on his father's land, so I accepted all responses that gave Culp as the answer to question # 28.

Sockknitter's article also includes an interesting story about a message Wesley Culp may have been bearing for a resident of the town.

Here's Sockknitter's link to the article.

http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/culpw.htm

 

[samgrant]

Well I was looking in vain for
'farms' around Gettysburg that fit the story, for ever, but found Culp by chance, but not as a father's farm.
There were farms NW of town and between the lines, but none fit.
If you'd substituted 'hilll' for ' farm' it would make sense.

Cindy's link alludes to the questionof the veracity of this story, as least to the particulars.

 

[Robert B. Condon]

I just found this but just for the record, the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1961 is located in Gettysburg and is named the John Wesley Culp Memorial Camp.