GDG- Scavenger Hunt - Answers

[Ginny Gage]

As promised, here are the answers to this year¹s Scavenger Hunt:

GDG SCAVENGER HUNT ­ 2007
(Questions and Answers)
 
1.  What are the instructions on the 106th PA monument, who issued the
orders, and to whom were they issued?
 

    Answers:  O.O. Howard to Major Osborn, ³Your batteries can be withdrawn
when that regiment runs away.²

 
2.  Locate the 14th Indiana monument on East Cemetery Hill.  What duty did
I. Norris have with the regiment?
 

    Answer:  Color bearer

 
3.  What monument gives recognition to Orderlies and Couriers and where is
it located? 
 

    Answer:  NY Cavalry ­ Meade¹s Headquarters

 
4.  According to the 126th NY monument, who was mortally wounded?
 

    Answer:  Colonel Eliakim Sherrill

 
5.  Where was Camp Colt Officers Club located?
 

    Answer:  West Middle Street

 
6.  Where did General Lee hold a Council of War in the town of Gettysburg on
July 2? 
 

    Answer:  County Prison on East High Street

 
7.  What monument was erected by Col. R. Penn Smith and who was it in honor
of? 
 

    Answer:  Lt. A. H. Cushing - 71st PA Vols. on Hancock Avenue


    Extra credit:  What¹s another name for this regiment?

 
    Answer:  California Regiment

 
8.  On what monument will you find inscribed ³We have crossed the
mountains?² 
 

    Answer:  7th West Virginia Infantry on East Cemetery Hill.

 
9.  How many bronze stars honoring the loyal Union states are on the
Soldiers National Monument in the National Cemetery?
 

    Answer:  18 for each of the Union states that fought at Gettysburg and
the number of State burial plots there.

 
10.  On what monument will you find the Bliss copy of the Gettysburg Address
in the National Cemetery?
 

    Answer:  Kentucky State Monument

 
11. On what monument will you find the inscription ³Batterson Fecit,² and
what does it mean?

 
      Answer: On the lower right corner of the front base of the Soldier¹s
National Monument in the National Cemetery.  It translates to ³Batterson
made it.²

 
12.  What is the inscription on the 1st Andrews Sharpshooters monument?

 
       Answer: ³In God we trust, but kept our powder dry."

Mary Davis and Ginny Gage