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[hoosier]

Lincoln sent this message to Grant in 1864.

[ivan]

from Lincoln - to Grant

[lorrierivette]

"Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew & choke, as much as possible."
President Abraham Lincoln to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
during the siege at Petersburg, Virginia
August 17, 1864

SouthernHeart Lorrie

[snoopy]

Pres. Lincoln said it to General Grant.

[civilwartalk]

Yesterday's 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"? Lincoln gave this advice to Grant.

Here is today's one point question:

In the election of 1860, Democrats labeled many Republicans as "Black Republicans". What did this label come to mean?

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Our Trivia Prize for Game #20:
I think what we will do, since our Gettysburg trip was a bust, and we need to keep paying the bills, Ami will make and ship out some homemade chocolates to MFSCW, and do the same for the November prize as well.

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http://www.civilwartalk.com/bbs/messages/2/8266.html

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GOOD LUCK!

[mfscw]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL.
Despite the fact that the Republicans nominated Lincoln precisely because he was the consummate moderate on the issue of slavery, and therefore stood the best chance of carrying critical Northern states, associating Lincoln with blacks was a favorite theme of Southerners and satirists alike. The party's (admittedly mixed) support among abolitionists, and its official stance opposing the spread of slavery into the territories, prompted the widespread use of the pejorative sobriquet "Black Republicans."

[crowbar]

Black Republicans

From 1854, when the Republican Party was founded, Democrats labeled it adherents "black" Republicans to identify them as proponents of black equality. During the 1860 elections Southern Democrats used the term derisively to press their belief that Abraham Lincoln's victory would incite slave rebellions in the South and lead to widespread miscegenation. The image the term conveyed became more hated in the South during Reconstruction as Radical Republicans forced legislation repugnant to Southerners and installed Northern Republicans or Unionists in the governments of the former Confederate states.
Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War"

[raggedrebel]

Here is the northern (or politically correct) version of it: Despite the fact that the Republicans nominated Lincoln precisely because he was the consummate moderate on the issue of slavery, and therefore stood the best chance of carrying critical Northern states, associating Lincoln with blacks was a favorite theme of Southerners and satirists alike. The party's (admittedly mixed) support among abolitionists, and its official stance opposing the spread of slavery into the territories, prompted the widespread use of the pejorative sobriquet "Black Republicans."
The substantive version is that the south did not refer to Lincoln himself as that, but to the radical abolition (without any social solutions) faction in the Republican party. It was the hardliners such as Wade, Stevens, Chandler, Wilson, etc. that they were referring to.
RR

[aggie80]

The party's (admittedly mixed) support among abolitionists, and its official stance opposing the spread of slavery into the territories, prompted the widespread use of the pejorative sobriquet "Black Republicans." A common tactic of Democratic propaganda during (and, indeed, after) the election of 1860 was to portray the Republicans as the party which sought to elevate both slaves and freedmen at the expense of whites and the nation as a whole.

[belletraveler]

It was a name given to Republicans that were friendly to the cause of Negro emanicipation or abolition.

Belle

[ivan]

Proponents of black equality.

[hoosier]

It meant that those so referred to were in favor of the abolition of slavery.

[skirmish]

Republicans in 1860, were labeled this and accused of being a party who were trying to elevate slaves and freedman at the expense of the nation

[snoopy]

Republicans who aided the Negro Freedman during Reconstruction.
They wore pumpkins for masks, especially on Halloween.

[sgtabj]

The name, "Black Republicans", came originally from the party's opposition to the spread of slavery into the territories and from the party support among abolitionists...It soon came to be even more strongly identified with abolition...A Black Republican was considered an abolitionist...
After the war, "Black Republicans" pushed for the election of black officials in the South...These black officials were also "Black Republicans"... Thus has evolved our present use of the name to refer to blacks who are members of the Republican Party....

[traveller]

A common tactic of Democratic propaganda during and after the election of 1860 was to portray the Republicans as the party which sought to elevate both slaves and freedmen at the expense of whites and the nation as a whole. They were labled "Black Republicans"

[civilwartalk]

Yesterday's Question: In the election of 1860, Democrats labeled many Republicans as "Black Republicans". What did this label come to mean? Republicans who wished to abolish slavery.

Here is today's one point question:

When a Civil War soldier wormed a bullet, what was he doing?

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Our Trivia Prize for Game #20:
I think what we will do, since our Gettysburg trip was a bust, and we need to keep paying the bills, Ami will make and ship out some homemade chocolates to MFSCW, and do the same for the November prize as well.

Final Scores for Game #20:
http://www.civilwartalk.com/bbs/messages/2/8266.html

How to Play The Game:
http://civilwartalk.com/bbs/messages/2/6517.html

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GOOD LUCK!

[mfscw]

Removing a wad and cartridge from the bore.
Source: The Civil war from A to Z, posted by our own SgtABJ<g>

[ivan]

He extracted the bullet from a loaded musket barrel.

[raggedrebel]

He was digging out, or extracting a round that had jammed in the barrel of the weapon. He was using a device similar to a corkscrew to pull out the jammed ball and wad.

RR

[lorrierivette]

He was removing a wad and cartridge from the bore.

SouthernHeart Lorrie

[aggie80]

Removing a bullet from a musket via a "worm", a ramrod attachment used to remove stuck bullets when the weapon has failed to fire. Sometimes a soldier would forget to put the powder in before the bullet!

[sgtabj]

Removing it from the muzzle or bore....

[belletraveler]

To remove an unfired bullet from a gun by attaching a worm (a screw device) to the end of a ramrod, inserting it down the gun barrel, screwing it into the bullet and then removing the projectile.

Belle

[skirmish]

I believe he is trying to get a stuck bullet pulled from the barrel with a Worm