11. What Union general headed the honor guard at Lincoln’s funeral and also presided over the commission which tried the assassination conspirators?
12. What Confederate Cabinet officer became legal counsel to the queen of England after the Civil War?
13. When Adm. Samuel F. DuPont’s nine-ship ironclad squadron attacked Fort Sumter on April 7, 1863, which Union ironclad sustained damage that resulted in her sinking?
14. What prominent Confederate general operated an Arkansas drugstore before the war?
15. (Two point question) Fill in the blank: Confederate generals’ uniform coats featured an intricate design called a “___ knot,” formed by four gold braids on the sleeve. (Hint: The correct answer is the name of a nationality.)
Answers to the questions for Week 3 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, November 25.
Good luck!
Note: Since I’m a little late getting to my computer this evening (Nov. 18), I’m posting these questions now. Responses to the questions for Week 2 will be graded, and the correct answers posted, shortly.
Hope all of my comrades here had a nice Thanksgiving. Now it is the mad dash to Christmas!!
__________________ "Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage." - R. E. Lee
[quote=hoosier]Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 43.
11. What Union general headed the honor guard at Lincoln’s funeral and also presided over the commission which tried the assassination conspirators?
Joseph Holt INCORRECT
12. What Confederate Cabinet officer became legal counsel to the queen of England after the Civil War?
Judah P. Benjamin
13. When Adm. Samuel F. DuPont’s nine-ship ironclad squadron attacked Fort Sumter on April 7, 1863, which Union ironclad sustained damage that resulted in her sinking?
The tinclad Keokuk
14. What prominent Confederate general operated an Arkansas drugstore before the war?
Patrick Cleburne
15. (Two point question) Fill in the blank: Confederate generals’ uniform coats featured an intricate design called a “___ knot,” formed by four gold braids on the sleeve. (Hint: The correct answer is the name of a nationality.)
Austrian
Calicoboy
__________________ My dear mother:- I have come safely through two more terrible engagements with the enemy, that at South Mountain and the great battle of yesterday (Antietam). Our splendid regiment is almost destroyed. We have had nearly 400 men killed and wounded in the battles. Seven of our officers were shot and three killed in yesterday's battle and nearly 150 men killed and wounded. All from less than 300 engaged. The men have stood like iron....Maj. Rufus Dawes, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers
15- Hmm, after much looking, can only come up with French Knot. INCORRECT
__________________ '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'
11. David Hunter of Illinois, who also had accompanied Lincoln on his inaugural journey to Washnigton in 1861, fulfilled these other two duties.
12. Judah Benjamin became legal counsel to Queen Victoria in 1872.
13. The U.S.S. Keokuk, which sustained 90 hits, including almost 20 below the waterline, sank the next day.
14. Patrick Cleburne was a professional pharmacist and half-owner of a drugstore in Helena, AR.
15. My source said the design was called a Hungarian knot, but I found another source which verifies that it was also called an Austrian knot, which is the answer most of you gave. (Someday, when I get ambitious, I’ll check and see whether Austria and Hungary were part of the same country at the time of the Civil War.) I have not, however, been able to find anything that says it was called a French knot.
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