Packet A: Tossup 3

Under the command of Felix Zollicoffer, the 33rd Indiana Infantry Regiment traversed a route with this name at the start of the Battle of Camp Wildcat. During a battle with this name, John Hammond’s cavalry was driven back to Parker’s Store by A. P. Hill. (-5[1])Brigadier General John B. Gordon (-5[1])attacked the Union right flank at a battle with this name shortly after James Longstreet was wounded by his men, (-5[2])pushing (-5[1])Ulysses S. Grant to move troops (-5[1])to Spotsylvania Court (10[1])House. (10[2]-5[2])During (10[1]-5[1])the 1864 (10[1]-5[1])Overland Campaign, (-5[1])Grant (10[1])fought Robert E. Lee (-5[1])in a heavily wooded (10[1])region (10[2])with (10[1])this (10[1])name. (10[11]-5[3])A route with (10[3])this name (10[1]-5[1])was blazed for (10[1])the (10[1])Transylvania (10[2])Company (10[1])through (10[1])the Cumberland (10[2])Gap en route to Kentucky. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])a road blazed by Daniel Boone (-5[1])had what name, (-5[1])indicating (10[2]-5[1])its inhospitable (10[1]-5[1])nature? (10[1])■END■ (10[20]0[18])

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