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[civilwartalk]

Yesterday's Question: About how many inches of cannon barrel was lost/removed after a shell exploded in the muzzle of the famous cannon named "Widow Blakely"? 24 inches.

Here is today's one point question:

What was the last battle in which Grant and Sherman fought together?

Expect the next trivia question to be posted tomorrow at about 7AM EDT. Please post your answer to this question before that time. Thank you!

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!

[raggedrebel]

Missionary Ridge. 11/25/63

RR

[mfscw]

Missionary Ridge 25 nov 1863

[lorrierivette]

Missionary Ridge, November 25th, 1863

SouthernHeart Lorrie

[sgtabj]

Missionary Ridge/Chattanooga

[snoopy]

During the Chattanooga Campaign at the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

[hoosier]

According to what I can find, it appears that Grant and Sherman last fought together at the battle of Chattanooga.

Incidentally, homemade chocolates sounds like a great prize.

[belletraveler]

My answer is Chattanooga.

Belle

[civilwartalk]

Today is ELECTION DAY, make sure you get out and vote!

Yesterday's Question: What was the last battle in which Grant and Sherman fought together? Missionary Ridge / Chattanooga

Here is today's one point question:

What Virginia community was destroyed on August 7, 1861, by Confederate forces?

Expect the next trivia question to be posted tomorrow at about 7AM EDT. Please post your answer to this question before that time. Thank you!

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]

Fearing the Union troops would occupy the city of Hampton, Confederate Brigadier General John B. Magruder ordered the town burned August 7. St. John’s Church was the only building to survive. Following

[belletraveler]

The answer is Hampton, VA.

Belle

[crowbar]

>>> I beleive the date was wrong on this. What I could find it was in 1862 and not 1861.<<<
7 August 1862 - Upon the hearing that Union General Ben Butler plans to use the Virginia coastal village of Hampton to house escaped slaves, Confederate general John B. Magruder evacuated the town's residents and
then orders their homes to be burned.

[aggie80]

The town of Hampton, VA, about three miles from Fort Monroe. After the First Battle of Bull Run, Brig.Gen John B. Magruder set firt to the town on August 7, 1861 to prevent its reoccupation by the Union Forces.

[ivan]

Gen. John B. Magruder burned Hampton, Va.,because he had learned that Union Gen. Butler intended to use the village as a holding point for runaway slaves.

[raggedrebel]

Hampton,by order of "Prince" John Magruder.

RR

[snoopy]

John MacGruder burned Hampton, VA.

[lorrierivette]

Brigadier General John B. Magruder ordered the town of Hampton burned August 7th, 1861 so that Union troops would not occupy it.

SouthernHeart Lorrie

[civilwartalk]

Yesterday's Question: What Virginia community was destroyed on August 7, 1861, by Confederate forces? Brigadier General John B. Magruder ordered the town of Hampton burned August 7th, 1861 so that Union troops would not occupy it.

Here is today's one point question:

What town bills itself as the "Birthplace of the Confederacy"?

Expect the next trivia question to be posted tomorrow at about 7AM EDT. Please post your answer to this question before that time. Thank you!

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!

[crowbar]

Abbeville County, SC
West South Carolina, Southeast USA
Birthplace of the Confederacy
....
Also I think Montgomery, Ala had at one time called that town that. ???

[mfscw]

Montgomery, Ala.

[raggedrebel]

Abbeville, S.C.

RR

[aggie80]

I think the answer you are probably expecting is Montgomery, Alabama. Alabama’s capital city served as the birthplace of the Confederacy. The order to fire on Fort Sumter – the singular act that started America’s costliest war – was sent by telegraph from an office at the base of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue.
However, we should note that other places claim the title:

Known as The Birthplace of the Confederacy, Charleston, South Carolina, hosted the tumultuous Democratic Party National Convention of April 1860 as well as the secession convention that met later that year.

Abbeville, South Carolina, was the birthplace of John C. Calhoun, the influential politician who defended the rights of Southern states before the Civil War. As Calhoun’s home and as the place where the first secession document was presented, the town has been called “the birthplace of the Confederacy.”

[snoopy]

The seal of Montgomery, Alabama says it is the "cradle of the Confederacy" so obviously it must also be the birthplace.

[mfscw]

I found another source that says Abbeville, S.C. home of John C. Calhoun

[sgtabj]

Abbeville, S.C. (the whole county in fact) is probably the most recognized as "officially" holding the title...Charleston and Montgomery have also tried to lay claim to the title...