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Trivia Game # 54 - Week 6
Here are the questions for Week 6 of Game # 54
1. Identify this friend of West Point cadets who died in May, 1877.
2. After holding out under siege for two days a Union colonel entered his enemy's lines under a flag of truce and asked the Confederate commander's advice as to whether or not to surrender. The Confederate commander, a brigadier general, allowed the colonel to inspect the Confederate position and decide for himself. After touring the camp and counting the guns, the colonel surrendered. At what battle did this unusual episode take place?
3. This Civil War surgeon who was captured in April 1864 and exchanged in August of that year, was awarded the Medal of Honor. That honor was subsequently rescinded and also restored in the 20th century. Name the surgeon.
4. At what Civil War battle was General Grant was wounded in the head?
5. This Indiana native was a major of the regiment which was the first unit of the Army of the Ohio to arrive at and take part in the first day of the Battle of Shiloh. Later that year he was promoted to colonel and led a regiment in XIII Corps from Memphis thru the fall of Vicksburg. By the end of the war he was a brevet brigadier-general. Post-war he was elected mayor of a town in his native state. He was then appointed a territorial governor by President Grant, and served one term in the House of Representatives. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 23. Good Luck!
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Here are the questions for Week 6 of Game # 54
1. Identify this friend of West Point cadets who died in May, 1877.
2. After holding out under siege for two days a Union colonel entered his enemy's lines under a flag of truce and asked the Confederate commander's advice as to whether or not to surrender. The Confederate commander, a brigadier general, allowed the colonel to inspect the Confederate position and decide for himself. After touring the camp and counting the guns, the colonel surrendered. At what battle did this unusual episode take place?
3. This Civil War surgeon who was captured in April 1864 and exchanged in August of that year, was awarded the Medal of Honor. That honor was subsequently rescinded and also restored in the 20th century. Name the surgeon.
4. At what Civil War battle was General Grant was wounded in the head?
5. This Indiana native was a major of the regiment which was the first unit of the Army of the Ohio to arrive at and take part in the first day of the Battle of Shiloh. Later that year he was promoted to colonel and led a regiment in XIII Corps from Memphis thru the fall of Vicksburg. By the end of the war he was a brevet brigadier-general. Post-war he was elected mayor of a town in his native state. He was then appointed a territorial governor by President Grant, and served one term in the House of Representatives. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 23. Good Luck!
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