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Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
07-09-2013, 03:31 PM
Post: #316
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
One of U.S. Grant's sons?

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07-09-2013, 03:45 PM
Post: #317
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
I am sorry, Joe, but it's not him. This person's name is very obscure.
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07-10-2013, 05:13 AM
Post: #318
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
Hint #2: He was shot during the Civil War and was declared unfit for service at the front.

Hint #3: He was assigned to the War Department and saw Lincoln almost daily.

Hint #4: Quite by accident he was out walking on April 14 and saw Abraham and Mary's carriage go by as they headed to the Navy Yard during their last ride together.
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07-10-2013, 07:58 AM
Post: #319
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Could it be someone who worked at the telegraph office of the War Dept?

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07-10-2013, 08:25 AM
Post: #320
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
Did he have a relative that was actually at the Navy Yard when Lincoln arrived?

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07-10-2013, 08:40 AM
Post: #321
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Joe, I am not entirely sure, but I don't think so. He did not mention this in the reminiscences he wrote.

Gene, in his reminiscences, he says he worked in the War Department but does not specifically say what his job was.

Hint #5: My source is out-of-print, was published in 1922 by Scribner & Co, and the Amazon page says "limited availability."
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07-10-2013, 01:02 PM
Post: #322
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Out of print, yes. But it can be found on the internet.

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07-10-2013, 01:58 PM
Post: #323
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I cannot think of any further clues on this one. The answer is Thomas S. Hopkins who wrote "A Boy's Recollections of Mr. Lincoln" which was published in 1922. The Amazon page I referred to is here.
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07-10-2013, 03:08 PM
Post: #324
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09-13-2013, 06:26 AM
Post: #325
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On July 13, 1859, Abraham Lincoln walked into the C. M. & S. Smith store in Springfield and bought a pair of suspenders. How much did he pay for the suspenders?
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09-13-2013, 09:03 AM
Post: #326
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(09-13-2013 06:26 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  On July 13, 1859, Abraham Lincoln walked into the C. M. & S. Smith store in Springfield and bought a pair of suspenders. How much did he pay for the suspenders?

75 cents
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09-13-2013, 09:10 AM
Post: #327
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Right, Joe! HA! (as Betty O. would say). Joe, I told my wife at breakfast this morning a prediction that Joe Di Cola was among the betting favorites to correctly answer the trivia question I just put up. As Joe Beckert would say, "What do I win?"
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10-02-2013, 05:24 PM
Post: #328
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What was the first Civil War battlefield to be designated a National Military Park?
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10-02-2013, 05:59 PM
Post: #329
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Was it the Gettysburg battlefield?
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10-02-2013, 06:54 PM
Post: #330
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Is it Chickamauga and Chattanooga?
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