Here are the questions for the fifth week of Game # 34.
21. What were “Sherman’s hairpins?”
22. Who was John Bell’s running mate as vice-presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860?
23. A 21-year old Union colonel, son of an admiral in the Union Navy, was killed on March 1, 1864 during an abortive raid on Richmond under the command of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick. Who was the father of the slain colonel?
24. The terrain around the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain featured three prominences: 700-foot high Big Kennesaw, 400-foot high Little Kennesaw, and 200-foot Pigeon Hill. After what now-extinct species was Pigeon Hill named?
25. (Two-point question) What future Union general, a West Point classmate and roommate of John Bell Hood, helped prevent Hood’s expulsion by tutoring him in mathematics?
Answers to the questions for Week 5 will be due by 6 PM on Saturday, October 29.
21. When soldiers tore up railroads, they often heated the rails in fires to the point to which they could be bent or twisted around a tree or telegraph pole rendering them unsalvagable to the enemy. Gen. William Sherman's troops were perhaps best known for this type of distruction., hence the twisted rails were known as "Sherman's Hairpins" (or Sherman's Neckties").
22. Bell's running mate was Edward Everett (he later gave the "main speech" at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery - remembered only, perhaps, by it's 2 hour length).
23. Ulric's father was Adm. John A. Dahlgren.
24. Passenger Pigeon (Martha, the last one, died at 1 PM on September 1, 1914)
21. Also known as "Sherman's bowties" - When tearing up the Confederate railroad system the ties would be piled up in a bonfire and the rails heated so that they could be bent and twisted around trees and telegraph poles. An excellent demonstration of the procedure may be seen in the John Wayne classic "The Horse Soldiers".
22. The opening act at the Gettysburg Address, Edward Everett.
23. Rear Admiral John Dahlgren was the father of that adherent of the black flag, Ulric.
24. The passenger pigeon, which became extinct when the last one died 6 months and 5 days after Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain became extinct.
25. John M. Scholfield
__________________ "Up men and to your posts, and remember today that you are from Old Virginia."
21) Railroad rails that were torn up, heated adn bent around a tree or post to look like giant hairpins.
22) Edward Everett
23) Ulrich Dahlgren CORRECTED IN SUBSEQUENT POST
24) the Passenger Pigeon
25) Major General James B. McPherson
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21- Sherman's hairpins or neckties were rails from Southern railroads in his path that were pried up by his troops, heated over a fire, and bent around a tree or some object so as to render the rail unusable and unretrievable;
22- Edward Everett of Massachusetts;
23- Admiral John Dahlgren;
24- Passenger pigeons;
25- Hood's buddy, John M Schofield.
__________________ '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'
21. "A railroad rail that had been pried up, heated and softened (often over a bonfire of railroad ties) and twisted around a tree till shaped like a hairpin; sometimes bent into a doughnut shape by use of railroad hooks. Made famous during Sherman's destructive March to the Sea." From Civil War Wordbook by Lyman.
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