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Trivia Game # 54 - Week 2
Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 54
1. An ADC to a Confederate general got married in the midst of the evacuation of Richmond in April, 1865. Name him.
2. Nearsightedness caused the death of what General in January of 1862?
3. In Maryland, on May 11, 1861 (give or take a day or so), soldiers of the 6th Massachusetts, under command of Col. Edward F. Jones, captured a highly unusual Confederate weapon. What was it?
4. These father and son generals of the same full name, Senior and Junior, are buried side by side only several yards from the plot where Daniel Boone's remains were allegedly reinterred. One was a Confederate Lieutenant General, the other was a U.S. army Lieutenant General who was killed in World War II. What was their name?
5. When the federal arsenal in the capital of a Southern state was surrendered in early 1861, citizens of that town presented the arsenal's commander, a captain in the regular U.S. army, with an inscribed sword in gratitude that he had surrendered peaceably and had avoided bloodshed. The officer accepted the sword saying that it would be "cherished" and that he would wear it in defense of his country. And that he did, becoming a Brigadier-General of the state militia of a border state the following year and acting in several actions against the Confederates. A West Point graduate and veteran of both the Mexican and Seminole wars, he would become a brevet Brigadier General, U.S.A. by the end of the war. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, July 26. Good Luck!
Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 54
1. An ADC to a Confederate general got married in the midst of the evacuation of Richmond in April, 1865. Name him.
2. Nearsightedness caused the death of what General in January of 1862?
3. In Maryland, on May 11, 1861 (give or take a day or so), soldiers of the 6th Massachusetts, under command of Col. Edward F. Jones, captured a highly unusual Confederate weapon. What was it?
4. These father and son generals of the same full name, Senior and Junior, are buried side by side only several yards from the plot where Daniel Boone's remains were allegedly reinterred. One was a Confederate Lieutenant General, the other was a U.S. army Lieutenant General who was killed in World War II. What was their name?
5. When the federal arsenal in the capital of a Southern state was surrendered in early 1861, citizens of that town presented the arsenal's commander, a captain in the regular U.S. army, with an inscribed sword in gratitude that he had surrendered peaceably and had avoided bloodshed. The officer accepted the sword saying that it would be "cherished" and that he would wear it in defense of his country. And that he did, becoming a Brigadier-General of the state militia of a border state the following year and acting in several actions against the Confederates. A West Point graduate and veteran of both the Mexican and Seminole wars, he would become a brevet Brigadier General, U.S.A. by the end of the war. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, July 26. Good Luck!
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