Here are the questions for Week 4. New players are welcome to join the game at any time.
As usual, please submit answers to all five questions by 6 PM EST next Saturday, which will be January 29.
16. In what year did the U.S. Congress authorize the first paper currency, called "greenbacks?"
17. What first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864?
18. Why were doorways wide in the centuries before and decades after the Civil War?
19. On the afternoon of the second day at Gettysburg, some troops cheered Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet as they prepared to go into action. What was Longstreet's reply? (If you can give me the exact quote, great, but I'll accept any answer that gives the general gist of Longstreet's reply.)
20. (Two point question) Lincoln's secretary, John G. Nicolay, hired a substitute in 1864.
A. What was the substitute's name?
B. What state did the substitute come from?
C. Was the substitute a black man or a white man?
D. Did the substitute survive the war?
To get the two points, you must get any three of the above four answers correct.
16) 1862
17) "In God We Trust"
18) For home funerals, so coffins with pallbearors could fit through them.
19) "Cheer less, men, and fight more".
20 (Finally found it in CW Notebook by Nofi)
a) Hiram Child B) N.C. C) Black D) No, KIA
18. So that coffins could be passed through with a pallbearer on
either side.
19. <strike> A guess...why are they cheering?</strike>
20. a) <strike>Edward Duffield Neill</strike>
b) <strike>Pennsylvania</strike>
c) <strike>White</strike>
d) <strike>Yes, Mr. Neill died in 1893</strike>
16. <strike>1861</strike>
17. “In God We Trust”
18. Wakes and bodies were held at home; doorways had to be wide enough to let coffins and pallbearers through
19. ---
20. <strike>Charles H Philbrick, born in Louisiana, grew up in Illinois, white, yes survived the war</strike>
16. The U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called "greenbacks," in 1862.
17. The words "In God We Trust" first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864.
18. Doorways were wide in the centuries before and decades after the Civil War so that coffins could pass through with a pallbearer on either side.
19. When the troops cheered him as they prepared to go into action on the second day at Gettysburg, Gen. Longstreet replied, "Cheer less, men, fight more!"
20. John Nicolay, Lincoln's secretary, hired Hiram Child, a black man from North Carolina, as his substitute in 1864. Child was killed in action during the war.
Since I am late posting these answers, I'll extend the deadline if anybody wants to appeal any of my decisions as to whether a particular response was correct. This week, appeals will be allowed until 6:00 PM on Tuesday, Feb. 1.
If anyone's schedule is such that they really have a problem submitting their responses by 6:00 PM Eastern time on a Saturday, and it would be much easier if the deadline were an hour or so later, please let me know and I'll be glad to change the deadline. Otherwise, in order to be fair to everybody, in future, responses submitted later than 6:00 PM Eastern time Saturday will not be accepted.
Sockknitter has alerted me to the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which contains the information that Congress authorized the issuance of "Demand Notes," which were referred to as greenbacks, in 1861. Congress then discontinued the "Demand Notes" and in their place authorized "Legal Tender Notes" or "United States Notes," which were also referred to as greenbacks, in 1862.
Thus, both 1861 and 1862 are correct answers to question 16.
The only people whose scores are affected are Sockknitter and Texaswildcat, who get one additional point each.
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