Ed Bearss Speaks At The General Pender Roundtable

This January 14^th, Friday we will meet at the Mobley Atrium Edgecombe Community College. Buffet by Abram's $12. Speaker Ed Bearss

We have a book to be awarded. If you attend the lecture and answer Professor D. H. Hill’s math questions you will win a book on the Civil War. (Sic) First person to arrive with the most questions answered is the winner. These are actual math tests that Professor Hill devised and you may need the help of your grandson.

A Yankee mixes a certain number of wooden nutmegs, which cost him 1/4 cent apiece, with a quantity of real nutmegs, worth 4 cents apiece, and sells the whole assortment for $44; and gains $3.75 by the fraud. How many wooden nutmegs were there?

In the year 1692, the people of Massachusetts executed, imprisoned, or privately persecuted 469 persons, of both sexes, and all ages, for alleged crime of witchcraft. Of these, twice as many were privately persecuted as were imprisoned, and 7 17/19 times as many more were imprisoned than were executed. Required the number of sufferers of each kind?

In the year 1637, all the Pequod Indians that survived the slaughter on the Mystic River were either banished from Connecticut, or sold into slavery. The square root of twice the number of survivors is equal to 1/10 that number. What was the number?

It is said of Gen. D H Hill

From the first awkward land battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel church, to the bloody days of horror at Antietam, General Daniel Harvey Hill was one of the Confederacy’s most brilliant and fiery commanders.

A man who lived by iron principle and who never wavered in his decisions, D.H. Hill spoke out sharply against confederate blunders, often clashing openly with Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, and even Jefferson Davis. Yet General Hill’s uncanny successes, both as a brilliant strategist and as a first-class military leader, caused Lee to remark of him,

“This man has the heart of a lion and the tongue of a adder, but I would not trade him for a brigade.”