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

(04-08-2021 10:11 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.

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(04-09-2021 04:42 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.

This info about Lincoln's hat, traveling to Washington, and Burlingame's book about the Lincoln marriage reminds me of an Irish song

"Hold on to your Hat", by Derek Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpgP2Gtx...k&index=28

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.

Jessie Harlan Lincoln?

(06-08-2021 11:15 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Jessie Harlan Lincoln?

Negative. Remove one generation. Go fish.

Mary Harlan Lincoln?