American history game

Nick22 · **Reply #260 on:** March 10, 2005, 01:26:36 PM

I wasn't sure about that.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #261 on:** March 11, 2005, 08:23:11 AM

The better it is

This way the game is more than just killing the time, but also has a "teaching effect". Find out about one more person who fought for one side with relatives on the other and the next round is yours.

Petrie · **Reply #262 on:** March 12, 2005, 08:53:29 AM

Sorry....don't have an answer....that wasn't one thing we were required to learn when I took a civil war course. :unsure: Do I get brownie points for saying that Lee was offered the chance to fight for the Union but turned it down because he cared about his home state of Virginia more?

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Malte279 · **Reply #263 on:** March 13, 2005, 12:43:38 PM

You are certainly right about Robert E. Lee being not only offered to fight for the union (an "offer" that was given to any US soldier no matter if he was from the north or the south) but was even offered command over the whole federal army.
Winfield Scott, the leader of the Federal armys at the beginning of the war had said in 1858, that Lee was the best soldier he had ever seen in the field (namely in Mexico).
An alternative for the families split by the war: Name three pairs of people who knew each other from the time before the war and knew each other well or had met each other from the time before the war.
There was hardly an officer on either side who didn't know somebody wearing the uniform of the other side.

Petrie · **Reply #264 on:** March 13, 2005, 10:36:12 PM

Didn't learn that either, but I'll gladly eat my brownie points.

Nick22 · **Reply #265 on:** March 15, 2005, 07:27:35 PM

Let me think..

Malte279 · **Reply #266 on:** March 16, 2005, 05:45:44 AM

Here are some riddle verses that describe some of the people who would match the criterias of the question. Maybe they'll be helpful... or confusing beyond all recognition.

One of five brothers who led the black hats and later fought indians.

Another brother whose picture was turned facing to the wall after he had made his decision. The rock of the river of blood.

The hat on the sword and the "superp". Both also knew the highest ranking Albert Sidney to fall in this war and the highest ranking to die in the same battle as he who put his head on the sword.

The leader of the infamous charge and the highest leader of his opponents.

The tanner's son of Ohio and his most famous enemy who suggested him for promotion 13 years earlier. The promotion being delivered by him who also confronted the tanner's son when he let the big river flow into the see unmolested once more. And don't forget the Old Warhorse attending the tanner's son's wedding.

The father in law whose famous son in law said that he would regret his decision and regret it only once.

The son who fell on father's hill along with many others.

Nick22 · **Reply #267 on:** March 16, 2005, 10:13:36 AM

The Leader of the infamous charge was Pickett and the enemy was Meade.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #268 on:** March 16, 2005, 05:57:20 PM

With Pickett we have one to whom I was refering. The other mand however was not Meade as one might suppose upon reading about the highest ranking from the other side. This however included not only military ranks.
Meade knew people who fought for the South too, but I don't think Pickett was among them.
If this is getting boring to you, please let me know and I shall think of something else.

Nick22 · **Reply #269 on:** March 24, 2005, 11:00:13 PM

Grant and Lee. Grant Was a Captain. Lee A General in the Mexican American War.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #270 on:** March 25, 2005, 03:02:27 PM

They had met each other. For all I know Lee had mentioned Grant in one of his reports and recommended him for a distinction. However when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomatox Grant asked Lee if he remembered him from Mexico, Lee said that he didn't. It was not a very close relationship.
Anyway, this is drawing out too much so with those you've given me you may come up with the next question Nick. Here are some more examples:

General Grant was a good friend of Lee's "Old Warhorse" James Longstreet, who was one of the most famous confederate Generals (who also commanded Pickett's charge even though he had repeatedly protested against that attack). Longstreet attended Grant's wedding and after the war Longstreet became a republican and got offices during Grant's presidency.

One of Pickett's brigades during the infamous charge was commanded by Lewis Armistead, who became famous for being one of the few to make it across the stonewall on Cemetery Ridge (with his hat put on the tip of his sword) before being shot down. He was a very close friend (a brotherlike relationship) to union general Winfild Scott Hancock whose Corps was hit by Pickett's charge. Hancock was seriously wounded during that fight.

Speaking of Pickett's charge, George Edward Pickett himself was so close a friend to Abraham Lincoln that he forbade anyone to talk bad of Lincoln in his presence.

Another general to be wounded during Pickett's charge was John Gibbon of North Carolina, who fought for the north while three brothers of him fought in the confederate army.

General George H. Thomas from Virginia also fought for the union. His family never spoke with him again and a portrait of him hanging in the house of his family was turned to face the wall.

There are many more examples for such tragic splits of families and friendships during the civil war.

Nick22 · **Reply #271 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:59:40 PM

How much did the US pay Spain to acquire the Phillipines Puerto Rico and Guam?

Threehorn · **Reply #272 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:10:07 PM

12.5 million?

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #273 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:16:09 PM

Nope, it was more than that.
Nick

Threehorn · **Reply #274 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:30:03 PM

Was thinking about the time it happened... I say then around 40 million guess for a guess.

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #275 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:47:08 PM

Nope. The Us paid $20 million for the 3 territories.
Nick

Threehorn · **Reply #276 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:49:04 PM

So my first answer was the closested lol

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #277 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:22:17 PM

Since I can't think of any questions at the moment, you can ask one threehorn.
Nick

Threehorn · **Reply #278 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:32:11 PM

I don't know much about the USA though so I am partly left in the dark here

but I will give it a short

What is the last state to become a state? in what year as well.

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #279 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:45:47 PM

Both Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959. Alaska joined in January, and Hawaii in August. So Hawaii is the last state to enter the Union.
Nick