Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[sszibler]

The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862

[sszibler]

2/5/23 Apolo 14, late submission

I was going to just take a photo of the moon, but Zeus was playing golf with it. Decided to do the Moondog sculpture – National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. When I got there the moon came out – eye roll. See photos on my painful ride (actually not that bad. Trying to turn over in bed and get on the bike is hideous though!). Still not sure exactly what’s going on, but I haven’t been taking cardio aspirin or diphenhydramine to sleep in case of TBI. The short, easy ride felt nice.

[Mtansill]

2/6/23: Battle of Ft Henry

Who was the victor at the Battle of Fort Henry? Ulysses S Grant!

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[Kbikeva]

@sszibler 223811 wrote:

Sorry for the extemporaneous post – this isn’t an actual submission – but did anyone check this out? It seems to be “closed”. Is it a tree or what??

It says, “Apollo14 Moon Tree, temporarily closed. 10100 Laureate Way, Bethesda, MD 20814“

A lot of the stuff that was marked “temporarily closed” during the lock down was marked so that people would not congregate. Then apparently someone forgot to ‘open’ them back up on google maps. As for the moon trees, google the info. It’s pretty interesting. There’s one in Hamilton VA too – not far from the W&OD.

[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 223811 wrote:

Sorry for the extemporaneous post – this isn’t an actual submission – but did anyone check this out? It seems to be “closed”. Is it a tree or what??

It says, “Apollo14 Moon Tree, temporarily closed. 10100 Laureate Way, Bethesda, MD 20814“

It is (or was) a tree. Originally, the tree itself was only marked with a wooden sign with the number 12, but there was a plaque inside the Gifford Pinchot Forestry Building giving all the details. However, the building has now been sold to Hope Connections for Cancer Support, so I suspect the plaque is no longer there. And I don’t know whether the tree has been chopped down or even if it has not, whether that wooden sign remains; I can’t see it on Google Street View.

[Kbikeva]

2/6/23 Battle of Fort Henry
I took the photo deliberately facing west, because Tennessee is west of here, which is where the Civil War battle of Fort Henry occurred with Grant leading the union forces to victory. The Revolutionary War battle of fort Henry was also west of here in what is now West Virginia.

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[CBGanimal]

@cvcalhoun 223839 wrote:

It is (or was) a tree. Originally, the tree itself was only marked with a wooden sign with the number 12, but there was a plaque inside the Gifford Pinchot Forestry Building giving all the details. However, the building has now been sold to Hope Connections for Cancer Support, so I suspect the plaque is no longer there. And I don’t know whether the tree has been chopped down or even if it has not, whether that wooden sign remains; I can’t see it on Google Street View.

I did go to the spot and found one tree there and one chopped down but neither had any signs of the moon tree. I did submit it for the Scavenger hunt as my picture above

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[Steve O]

2/6/23 Battle of Fort Henry

• This is a sign of Joyce Street
• James Joyce is famous for writing Ulysses
• Ulysses is the first name of Ulysses S. Grant
• Ulysses S. Grant was the brigadier general who won the battle for the Union
• Note the intersection with 19th Street
• The Civil War, during which the Battle of Fort Henry was fought, occurred in the 19th century

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[cvcalhoun]

@CBGanimal 223842 wrote:

I did go to the spot and found one tree there and one chopped down but neither had any signs of the moon tree. I did submit it for the Scavenger hunt as my picture above

Yeah, at best it would have had that wooden sign with the number 12 on it, which wouldn’t have been all that helpful if you didn’t know to look for it. And I don’t know whether even that sign has been taken down.

[bikesnick]

2/6/2023 – The Battle of Fort Henry
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Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant arrived to the battle of Fort Henry with two divisions, one was led by C.F. Smith (one of Grant’s instructors when he was a cadet at the US Military Academy).
Three forts were named in Smith’s honor. This one in Arlington, VA was part of the Civil War defense of Washington, DC.

[Kbikeva]

@Steve O 223844 wrote:

2/6/23 Battle of Fort Henry

• This is a sign of Joyce Street
• James Joyce is famous for writing Ulysses
• Ulysses is the first name of Ulysses S. Grant
• Ulysses S. Grant was the brigadier general who won the battle for the Union
• Note the intersection with 19th Street
• The Civil War, during which the Battle of Fort Henry was fought, occurred in the 19th century

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This is hilarious. But … his first name wasn’t Ulysses. It was his middle name. His first name was Hiram. It was changed through a clerical error. So his monogram would have been HUG, which wouldn’t have been the *best* choice to see on battlefield trunks…lol

[AlanA]

2/6/2023 – The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War (1861-65)

By early 1862, a single general, Albert Sidney Johnston, commanded all the Confederate forces from Arkansas to the Cumberland Gap, but his forces were spread too thinly over a wide defensive line. Johnston’s left flank was Polk, in Columbus with 12,000 men; his right flank was Brig. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with 4,000 men; the center consisted of two forts, Forts Henry and Donelson, under the command of Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, also with 4,000 men. Forts Henry and Donelson were the sole positions defending the important Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, respectively. If these rivers were opened to Union military traffic, two direct invasion paths would lead into Tennessee and beyond.

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I’m quite sure the Arkansas troops were not welcomed by the Union troops.

[CBGanimal]

2/6/2023 Battle of Ft Henry

I got a picture of Henry at his Fort (house) battling NIMBYs

You can’t miss that helmet!

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[camiller]

2/6/2023 Civil War Battle of Fort Henry

I was surprised to see this sign at a driveway on a gravel road in Loudoun County. I had to stop to take a picture that had both the Union and Confederate Generals name on it. General Grant and the Union Army were able to gain control of Fort Henry, providing a Union victory and access to Tennessee.

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[bikingjenn]

2/6/23 Ft Henry was great and here we have another Union-stronghold to protect DC Ft Ward in Alexandria

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