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RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 03-22-2013 05:32 PM

I first learned of the incident when reading Kline's book on the Baltimore Plot. Ninabeth might be able to add more details. I may be wrong, but I think Eckert might have been the one to discover the bomb. I am drowning so much in Lincoln stuff that I don't always remember who did what.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - ninabeth13 - 03-24-2013 03:44 PM

This is a fascinating thread and I love the trivia questions! I must sheepishly admit that I don't know anything about the grenade in the train. In Saving Lincoln we cover the Baltimore plot and various threats, plots and assassination attempts that occurred in Washington, but not the train grenade.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 03-29-2013 09:35 AM

Who is this person?

[Image: unidentifiedgentleman.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Laurie Verge - 03-29-2013 11:30 AM

The first John Wilkes, the British radical?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 03-29-2013 12:13 PM

Excellent guess, Laurie, but it's not him.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 03-29-2013 01:27 PM

Hint #1: This is not the picture commonly used for this person in history books.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 03-29-2013 02:10 PM

Looks like Judah Benjamin. From his time in Europe, I'll bet, judging from the wig.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 03-29-2013 02:16 PM

You got it, Joe. This photo was taken after he became a barrister in England.

Photo credit: my wife, Vicki, taken at Gamble Plantation in Ellenton, Florida.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-05-2013 01:03 PM

Here is a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln with his horse, Old Bob. Where is this located?

[Image: oldboblincoln.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Lincoln Wonk - 04-05-2013 01:20 PM

Is that the one at the soldier's home?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-05-2013 01:24 PM

You win, Kathy! Kudos. Indeed that is where it's located.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-06-2013 04:55 AM

Who wrote this?

[Image: letterfromwhom.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Laurie Verge - 04-06-2013 08:21 AM

It has to pertain to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, but I am not familiar enough with Lincoln's handwriting to credit him as the author of the letter. I'll say Stephen Douglas so that you Lincoln experts can prove me wrong.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 04-06-2013 08:41 AM

(04-06-2013 08:21 AM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  It has to pertain to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, but I am not familiar enough with Lincoln's handwriting to credit him as the author of the letter. I'll say Stephen Douglas so that you Lincoln experts can prove me wrong.

And the agreement was made at the Francis E. Bryant Cottage in Bement, Illinois. Bryant was a friend of Douglas and on the evening of July 29, 1858, Lincoln and Douglas met in the parlor of the Bryant Cottage and set the terms for the debates. This letter is a conbfirmation of that discussion.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-06-2013 08:54 AM

Laurie and Joe, you both are correct! Douglas wrote the letter.