(03-06-2015 07:12 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Kudos, Laurie! That is correct!
To conceal the true ownership the later British "HMS Wivern" was being constructed as the Egyptian warship "El Monassir" and was to have been named "Mississippi" upon delivery to the Confederates, and the "El Tousson" was to have been named North Carolina but was named "HMS Scorpion" under British flag.
For pictures and more, please go here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Scorpion_%281863%29
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Wivern_(1863)

Laurie, you win an exciting Nile cruise:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEfPyO14J4

As soon as someone settles the crisis in the Middle East, I will be happy to book a voyage down the Nile!

Ok, Rock Stars - What rock anthology (song) sometimes lasting 10 – 15 minutes long, was written about the wife of a Confederate Army Captain?

"In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" by the the Allman Brothers Band and the guitarist, Dickey Betts.

If this is the one, it's a great story in song. If it's not I like it anyway!
http://www.uofmusic.com/blog/4205/elizab...-moonlight

Great job Anita! Great song and great story.

Here is the short version, only 5 minutes. Other versions are up to 16 minutes.
(it's an instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1nyDF9Wak

Not a challenge I guess, but let's try...What is this (that makes it a trivia question on this forum)?
   

The Lincoln "courting couch" that was in the parlor of the Ninian Edwards home in Springfield?

Excellent guess, Roger, this is indeed a couch, but, sorry, not the one in the Edwardsens parlor.

Looks familiar, but I just want everyone to know, I am not responsible for that large spot on the right side corner. - Fido

(04-30-2015 06:06 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Excellent guess, Roger, this is indeed a couch, but, sorry, not the one in the Edwardsens parlor.

Is it the couch in the parlor of the Samuel Mudd home where Booth once sat?

Kudos, Scott - this is correct, and Fido is right, too, he wasn't responsible for any spots on this couch. I took this photo back in March:
   
Since Fido spotted a spot on the couch, "less is more", and I know you have a link to the Aachen area, instead of a sofa you win Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona chair:
   
[For background info on Mies v.d. Rohe (who was born in Aachen and died in Chicago), please go here:
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...s#pid36454 ]

What well-known woman of the Civil War era had a famous great-aunt on her father's side and a famous (later infamous) aunt on her mother's side?

Clara Barton?

Sorry, but no, Roger. This lady never achieved the high degree of fame that Clara did.

Oriana Moon Andrews?