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General William H. Forney.
Name FORNEY, William Henry
Born November 9 1823, Lincolnton NC
Died January 16 1894, Jacksonville AL
Pre-War Profession Mexican War, lawyer, politician.
War Service 1861 Capt. in 10th Alabama, Dranesville (w), Lt. Col., Peninsula campaign, Williamsburg (w,c), exchanged after four months, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (w), Gettysburg (w,c), Petersburg campaign, February 1865 Brig. Gen., Appomattox.
Post War Career Lawyer, politician, US congressman.
William H. Forney
Yesterday's Question: What Alabama General received four wounds at Gettysburg but did not halt his charge till a foot wound stopped him? General William H. Forney
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Why did shells from the famous gun Whistling Dick actually whistle?
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One of the most famous gun of the war was "Whistling Dick", a banded and rifled 18-pounder Confederate siege and garrison weapon. "Whistling Dick" began life as a iron smoothbore Model 1839 which had been rifled. Because of some erratic rifling all shells fired from the gun made a peculiar whistling sound, thus the name "Whistling Dick." The gun was part of the river defenses at Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863, and is credited with the sinking of the Union gunboat Cincinnati. "Whistling Dick" disappeared after the surrender of Vicksburg and remains unaccounted for today.
"WHISTLING DICK"
One of the most famous gun of the war was "Whistling Dick", a banded and rifled 18-pounder Confederate siege and garrison weapon. "Whistling Dick" began life as a iron smoothbore Model 1839 which had been rifled. Because of some erratic rifling all shells fired from the gun made a peculiar whistling sound, thus the name "Whistling Dick." The gun was part of the river defenses at Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863, and is credited with the sinking of the Union gunboat Cincinnati. "Whistling Dick" disappeared after the surrender of Vicksburg and remains unaccounted for today.
Because of some erratic rifling inside. It was converted from a smoothbore to a rifled gun and the rifling wasn't perfectly etched, causing the shells to whislte when they left the gun.
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The gun got it's name from the whistle it made every time it was shot; it's shrill sound could be heard above the boom of all the other artillery pieces. It's muzzle had been damaged and the barrel had beencut off about a foot which may have accounted for its whistling sound.
Mark W. Swarthout, Esq.
GGGrandson of Pvt. John W. Swarthout, Company E, 148th NYVI - Wounded at Cold Harbor.
GGGGrandson of Pvt. Henry Stephens, Company D, 137th NYVI - Wounded at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg.
The shells whistled because the rifling inside the gun was erratic.
Because of some erratic rifling all shells fired from the gun made a peculiar whistling sound, thus the name "Whistling Dick."
The conical projectile had an erratic spin and this caused the whistling as it went through the air.
The "Whistling Dick" was a banded and rifled 18-pounder Confederate siege and garrison weapon. Because of some erratic rifling all shells fired from the gun made a peculiar whistling sound.
SouthernHeart Lorrie
Because of some erratic rifling...
Because of the way the projectile was shaped and how it moved through the groves in the gun when fired.
Belle
Because of the erratic rifling in the cannon the shells fired from it made a peculiar whistling sound. Thus the name Whistling Dick
Erratic rifling was responsible for the whistling sound.
Yesterday's Question: Why did shells from the famous gun Whistling Dick actually whistle? The actual as to why are not known because the gun has yet to be discovered, if it even still exists, but reports (that often conflict) state that erratic rifling, a broken muzzle, or perhaps an odd shaped shell caused the whistling sound.
Here is today's one point question:
Who offered this advice, and to whom was the advice given: "Hold on with a bull-dog grip and chew and choke as much as possible"?
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Abraham Lincoln said this to Grant
"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." These determined words of advice were given to General Grant as reassurance and approval of his costly plans for defeat of the Confederate army from a war- wreary President Lincoln, just months before the 1864 presidential election that seemed unwinnable at the time.
Who else but U.S. Grant....LOL....He gave this sage advice to Abraham Lincoln....
CORRECTION!!! CORRECTION!!! Lincoln said that to Grant....Geez...I just knew it would have been Grant who said it...Oh well....
When Lincoln read Grant's reply to Halleck on this matter, he promptly telegraphed Grant his hardy approval, saying, ``I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.''
When Grant received Lincoln's message, he laughed heartily, and said to his staff, ``The President has more nerve than any of his advisors.''[fn53]
Mr. Lincoln said that to General Grant during the 1864 Overland campaign.
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Abraham Lincoln gave it to General Grant.
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GGGGrandson of Pvt. Henry Stephens, Company D, 137th NYVI - Wounded at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg.
President Lincoln to Lieutenant General Grant during the Petersburg siege. It was Lincoln's way of reassuring Grant that he had Grant's rear covered.
'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
-Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC.
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