Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels

[RJNorton]

Logical guess, Dennis, but that is not it.

[AussieMick]

I'm guessing, from the way you frame the question, that its a bone that people only have one of ( sorry for ending with 'of') ... coccyx?

[RJNorton]

That is another good guess; however, it's not correct.

[Steve]

His collarbone, at least according to this earlier post by one Roger Norton:

https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussi...tml#pid816

[RJNorton]

Good job, Steve! As we have so many new members I repeated a question from 8 years ago. The answer is in a book I have really enjoyed --> The Lincoln Inaugural Train by Scott Trostel. Scott's book provides excellent coverage of all that took place during the trip of the inaugural train. Scott is also the author of a book on the funeral train.

[AussieMick]

He was not a citizen of the US and yet he was at Appomattox Courthouse for the formal surrender. Who was he?

[RJNorton]

Wild guess --> Matias Romero.

[Joe Di Cola]

Grant's Native American aide Parker.

[AussieMick]

Sorry, Roger .... or should I say Matias Romero ( Mexican diplomat) is not the person I'm thinking of ....
Congrats Joe !
Ely S. Parker was a Tonawanda Seneca Indian. He wrote , according to Wikipedia, the terms of surrender and Robert E Lee shook his hand saying You're the only American here.

[David Lockmiller]

(10-22-2020 03:42 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Ely S. Parker was a Tonawanda Seneca Indian. He wrote , according to Wikipedia, the terms of surrender and Robert E Lee shook his hand saying You're the only American here.

This Wikipedia entry does not appear to jive with the description by then lieutenant colonel Horace Porter, LL.D., aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, of the meeting of Ely S. Parker and General Robert E. Lee on that day of surrender for General Lee’s army.

In Campaigning With Grant, (1897), in the chapter titled “Conducting the Surrender,” at page 481, this meeting of the two men is described:

While the letters were being copied, General Grant introduced the general officers who had entered, and each member of the staff, to General Lee. The general shook hands with General Seth Williams, who had been his adjutant when Lee was superintendent at West Point some years before the war, and gave his hand to some of the other officers who had extended theirs; but to most of those who were introduced he merely bowed in a dignified and formal manner. He did not exhibit the slightest change of features during this ceremony until Colonel Parker of our staff was presented to him. Parker was a full-blooded Indian, when Lee saw his swarthy features he looked at him with evident surprise, and his eyes rested on him for several seconds. What was passing in his mind no one knew, but the natural surmise was that he at first mistook Parker for a negro, and was struck with astonishment to find that the commander of the Union armies had one of that race on his personal staff. Lee did not utter a word while the introductions were going on, except to Seth Williams, with whom he talked cordially.

[David Lockmiller]

How did President Lincoln “keep alive” within his December 8, 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction an implicit promise made to Frederick Douglass in their meeting at the White House in the summer of 1863?

[RJNorton]

David, please wait until Rob's trivia question is answered before posting yours.

[David Lockmiller]

(10-23-2020 01:59 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  David, please wait until Rob's trivia question is answered before posting yours.

Sorry, Roger, I thought that AussieMick's was the last question on this thread and that question had been acknowledged as being correctly answered.

[RJNorton]

In the overall Trivia forum there should be one question at a time. Rob's Tough Tarbell Trivia question is what we are working on right now.

[RJNorton]

(10-23-2020 01:44 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  How did President Lincoln “keep alive” within his December 8, 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction an implicit promise made to Frederick Douglass in their meeting at the White House in the summer of 1863?

Did this have anything to do with black soldiers receiving less pay than white soldiers?