(04-08-2021 11:11 PM)Steve Wrote: [ -> ]Since Mick and Roger have already given the correct answers, I'm posting a link to images of the General Order referred to by David for everybody to look over for themselves:
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookview...1/mode/1up
Thanks for the information, Steve. It looks like Roger and AussieMick each get 50 percent of the credit for the correct answer. Each of you wins an all-expense paid vacation to Decatur, Illinois for one day. (One day is the longest anyone has ever stayed in Decatur on a vacation. Just kidding.)
Did anyone else notice that the vote of the military panel was 2 -1? Apparently, a member of the panel thought like President Lincoln regarding the severity of the punishment.
(04-09-2021 05:42 AM)AussieMick Wrote: [ -> ]I read the General Order and thought it very well typed. But then I read that James Pleasants was to be "hung".
Oh well , ar least he wasnt hanged ..... nor "hung".
https://writingexplained.org/hanged-vs-hung-difference
To add by way of explanation:
Hanged is the past tense and past participle of hang only when used in the sense of “put to death by hanging.”
For example,
The traitor was hanged for treason. [A somewhat appropriate example in this case.]
Who was George Hall and how did he influence our memory of Lincoln?
( Google ? ... yes go for it. And I wish you good luck)
Does it have anything to do with Lincoln's stovepipe hat?
Roger, you're on the ball. Can you score a goal like the USA soccer team ? Whats the connection to George?
He was a Springfield hatter who made the hat Lincoln wore on the inaugural train in 1861.
An artist named George Hall created a bust of Lincoln made of sheet-steel which, at one time, was displayed at the Illinois governor's office.
At least according to a 1971 newspaper article.
Sorry, Steve. Roger gets the chocolates. Or at least gives the answer I was after.
George Hall was the Springfield hatter who supplied Lincoln's stovepipe hat.
Speaking of Lincoln’s lids, being there’s only 3 in existence and one has dubious provenance, which one was given away as a gift at one point and by whom?
Because you have previously mentioned visiting Hildene I shall guess the one there. But I do not know who donated it.
Very good, PMOTI, you’re half way there. Think Lincoln decedents for the second half and you can exclude RTL.
(06-08-2021 12:15 PM)RJNorton Wrote: [ -> ]Jessie Harlan Lincoln?
Negative. Remove one generation. Go fish.