Time to begin a new game. Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 40.
1. What were “bounty jumpers?”
2. What battle, fought eleven months after the Battle of Gettysburg, was named for a nearby tavern which did not serve hot meals?
3. In addition to its monetary contributions, what item did Richmond’s Second Baptist Church donate to the Confederacy for the purpose of making cannons?
4. Why were the Confederate ironclads Georgia, Fredericksburg, and Charleston called “ladies’ gunboats?”
5. (Two point question) Who bought from the widow of John T. Ford, owner of Ford's theatre, the rocking chair that Lincoln had sat in the night he was shot; and then put the chair on display in his museum?
Answers to the questions for Week 1 will be due by 6 PM EDT on Saturday, July 8.
The source upon which I drew to formulate question # 2 indicated that the battle which is the correct answer to that question was fought June 1-3, 1864, which would mean it started exactly 11 months after the Battle of Gettysburg started and ended exactly 11 months after the Battle of Gettysburg ended.
I've found another source that indicates that some preliminary action in the battle started as early as May 31, and that subsequent action in the general vicinity continued as late as June 12. However, the bulk of the action took place within the time period from June 1 to June 3.
Bounty jumpers were men that enlisted in the Union army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave. The draft of 1863 allowed individuals to pay a bounty to someone else to fight in their place rather than be drafted. Bounty jumpers commonly enlisted numerous times in the army, collecting many bounties.
2. What battle, fought eleven months after the Battle of Gettysburg, was named for a nearby tavern which did not serve hot meals?
Cold Harbour
3. In addition to its monetary contributions, what item did Richmond’s Second Baptist Church donate to the Confederacy for the purpose of making cannons?
Brass Bell
4. Why were the Confederate ironclads Georgia, Fredericksburg, and Charleston called “ladies’ gunboats?”
Though not true “gunboats,” the Georgia, Fredericksburg, and Charleston
were jokingly referred to as “petticoat Gunboats” or “ladies Gunboats.” Money raised by ladies selling quilts enabled the purchase of the these vessels.
5. (Two point question) Who bought from the widow of John T. Ford, owner of Ford's theatre, the rocking chair that Lincoln had sat in the night he was shot; and then put the chair on display in his museum?
Henry Ford. (Sounds like an interesting museum; anyone been there?)
1. Men who received a bounty (cash bonus) for enlisting and then deserted and attempted to enlist in another regiment to collect a bounty for enlisting more than once.
2. Cold Harbor
3. The church donated its steeple bell. It also sold it pew cushions.
4. Ironclad gunboats purchased by funds raised by societies of Southern women organized for that purpose.
5. Henry Clay INCORRECT
__________________ "Up men and to your posts, and remember today that you are from Old Virginia."
1. A person that would enlist in one regiment for a bounty, or enlistment bonus, then would soon after desert and reenlist in another, often under an alias.
2. Cold Harbor
3. They donated their steeple bell
4. For the association, the Ladies Gunboat Association, that raised the funds in order to build the boats.
5. An associate of Henry Ford, no relation to the seller, to be displayed in his museum
1- Bounty jumpers were unscrupulous men who collected the bounty offered to join a Union regiment, only to 'jump'- desert at the first opportunity and re-enlist in another regiment to collect another bounty and continue along these lines as long as it could be gotten away with;
2- Battle of Cold Harbor;
3- The Second Baptist's steeple bell went to serve the Confederacy;
4- Ladies' Gunboats were so called because of funds raised by Southern Women to help build them;
5- Lincoln's Rocker was put in the 'Presidential Box' at Ford's Theatre for the President's use. Confiscated as evidence, it sat in War Secretary Stanton's office till 1866, when it was sent to the Smithsonian Museum and kept in storage. Henry Ford bought it at auction in 1921 and it has been a prized display in the Ford Museum at Dearborn, Michigan since.
__________________ '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'
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