Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels

[AussieMick]

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

[David Lockmiller]

(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.]

[AussieMick]

Who was George Hall and how did he influence our memory of Lincoln?

( Google ? ... yes go for it. And I wish you good luck)

[RJNorton]

Does it have anything to do with Lincoln's stovepipe hat?

[AussieMick]

Roger, you're on the ball. Can you score a goal like the USA soccer team ? Whats the connection to George?

[RJNorton]

He was a Springfield hatter who made the hat Lincoln wore on the inaugural train in 1861.

[Steve]

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.

[AussieMick]

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.

[Gene C]

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

[J. Beckert]

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?

[RJNorton]

Because you have previously mentioned visiting Hildene I shall guess the one there. But I do not know who donated it.

[J. Beckert]

Very good, PMOTI, you’re half way there. Think Lincoln decedents for the second half and you can exclude RTL.

[RJNorton]

Jessie Harlan Lincoln?

[J. Beckert]

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

Negative. Remove one generation. Go fish.

[RJNorton]

Mary Harlan Lincoln?