Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 2/6/23 Monday – The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War (1861-65)

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Battle of Three Henrys at King, but no Fort, no Tennessee, no Stewart, no US Grant, and no Tilghman.

[JoM]

2/6/23 – The Battle of Fort Henry
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Riding around campus asking students if their name was Henry garnered lots of stares and disses.
A Henry was no where in sight, despite my well-wishes!
So here I present Union Drive!

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2/6/23 Monday – The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War (1861-65)
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Fort Henry was designed to stop traffic on the river, rather than to withstand large-scale infantry assaults that armies would use during the war. The message around this storm sewer cover, “only water down the drain,” and the “No Dumping, Drains to Chesapeake,” plaque, reminded me of this fact about Fort Henry.

[cvcalhoun]

2/6/2023 Battle of Fort Henry
The Battle of Fort Henry was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War. The Maryland flag commemorates both sides of that war. The original Maryland flag was the coat of arms of George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, who successfully petitioned the King for a charter for the original colony of Maryland. That’s the black and gold part of the flag, and it’s still the background of the flag of the City of Baltimore.

But when Maryland decided to stay in the Union, those Marylanders who favored (and in many cases fought for) the Confederacy adopted the cross bottony (those red crosses) as their symbol. (The cross bottony was from the coat of arms of the family of the second Lord Baltimore’s mother.) Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore began to fly emblems with the red cross, as a contrast to the Union sympathizers. Maryland Confederate soldiers wore cross bottony pins on their uniforms, and a Confederate general from Maryland flew a white flag with a red cross bottony over his headquarters.

The current Maryland flag, adopted during Reconstruction, incorporates both flags. The top right and the bottom left are the cross bottony, and the top left and bottom right are the original Maryland flag. So it in fact represents both sides of the Civil War. Yeah, for those of us who like to think of Maryland as a progressive state, it’s still flying a flag that incorporates a flag of the Confederacy. (And let’s not even get into the state anthrm.)

[drevil]

2/6/23 Battle of Fort Henry

These dumpsters represent where the trashy Confederate racist ideology belongs.

[Nadine]

@bikesnick 223852 wrote:

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.

Wow I took the same picture, minus your bike!

[Nadine]

2/6/23 – battle of fort Henry

Fort CF Smith Park

CF Smith arrived at the battle of fort Henry with Grant, and had apparently been one of his teachers.

I got that from bikesnick, whose writeup was much more useful than Google’s today.

Isn’t it crazy how my picture looks almost the same? Thing is, if you go to the park you can see – this is the only angle for a photo where you can see the sign and both cannon platforms

[Nadine]

@drevil 223873 wrote:

2/6/23 Battle of Fort Henry

These dumpsters represent where the trashy Confederate racist ideology belongs.

Hahaha go Drevil!
Serdar DID say we should be creative [emoji38][emoji177][emoji1377]

[Boomer Cycles]

2/6/23 – The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War (1861-65)

I had two thoughts here: (1) Statue of President Garfield who made his fame during the Civil War at the battle of Chickamauga River for the city of Chattanooga, and (2) the power struggle behind Battle of Ft Henry and the Civil War is still very much alive in the building behind Garfield’s statue

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P.S.
Posting past midnight as Tapatalk was acting up and won’t let me post. Hopefully the FS cabal will look kindly upon this late submission.

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[drevil]

2/7 the Beatles

[Steve O]

@Kbikeva 223853 wrote:

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

Interesting trivia. Even the White House website lists him as Ulysses S. Grant, which was the name he went by his entire life. Not a clerical error, though, it seems.

(from wikipedia) Ten months after she was married, Hannah gave birth to Ulysses, her and Jesse’s first child.^[11] The boy’s name, Ulysses, was drawn from ballots placed in a hat. To honor his father-in-law, Jesse named the boy Hiram Ulysses, though he would always refer to him as Ulysses.

[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“

@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

So, I checked with the current owners of that building, and here is what they said:

Quote:

Thank you for reaching out regarding the Moon Tree! It is still here and is still marked with the number 12. The former property owners took the plaque when they moved, but attached is a copy of it.

Feel free to reach out if you have any further questions!

Glad to know it wasn’t the Moon Tree that was chopped down!

[JoM]

2/7/23 The Beatles landed in New York City on February 7, 1964, for their first trip to the U.S. “Help!” us remember their sounds.

Hello, Goodbye
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You say, “Goodbye” and I say, “Hello, hello, hello”

[Kbikeva]

2/7/23 Beatles in Music

I had just finished goofing around to get a photo with a life ring at the lake representing “Help” when I turned around and saw this little one reaching up for her grandma’s hand. What else could I do but get a photo for, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

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2/7/2023 The Beatles landed in New York City on February 7, 1964, for their first trip to the U.S. “Help!” us remember their sounds.
One of my very favorite Beatles songs is “Love Me Do,” written by John and Paul, recorded 6/6, 9/4, and 9/11 in 1962; produced by Ron Richards and George Martin; and released on 10/5, 1962 in the UK, and on 1/10, 1964 in the US.
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