Giddy Up! --- OFFICIAL CONTEST THREAD

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Giddy Up! Contest Answers

1) Name the sculptor of the equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant as pictured on this post card.
A: William Ordway Partridge


2) What organization commissioned this equestrian statue of General Grant?
A: The Union Club of Brooklyn (paid for by the Union League). It was unveiled April 27, 1896, in Grant Square.


3) The above statue is located in Brooklyn, NY. Please give the name of the streets that intersect the location of this statue?
A: Bedford Avenue and Dean Street, Crown Heights, Brooklyn.


4) The artist/sculptor of this statue realized the importance and personal relationship of horses in General Grant's life and career. The horse in this statue is not merely a part of the pedestal on which Grant is seated but rather the horse and rider are represented in a very naturalistic manner together as one. Both horse and rider's accurate postures reinforce this natural and realistic stance.

At the time of this statues creation, while underway in the artist's studio, what untried/innovative method did the sculptor employ to achieve this lifelike quality of representation?

Hint: Question #4 may prove difficult to answer as little has been written about this aspect of the statue's creation. Contestants are directed to a publication from the year 1900 available online in Google Books.

A: Partridge attempted the first casts from a living horse, a horse named Dante, which came from stables near his studio in Milton, Massachusettes.

Gen. Horace Potter said that when he saw Dante, "Why, he's just like Grant's Cincinnatus"

Potter was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In the last year of the war, he served on the staff of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, writing a lively memoir of the experience, Campaigning With Grant (1897).

Source: The New England magazine, Volume 22, March - August 1900. [Google Books]

Other information on the sculptor from the period was published in McClure's magazine, Volume 6, December 1895 to May 1896. [Google books]

Note: Some contestants replied with the 'lost-wax casting' method, which has actually been in use since Sumerian times, from 2500 BC.

Note: Some contestants gave the answers as the track and rails system the artist put the sculpture on inside his studio which allowed him to move the piece out of the studio and into natural light to examine the effects of the light and shadow on the piece, however, the artist actually learned this during his travels in Europe and in particular from studying the methods of period French sculptors who used this system to mobilize large scale work.


5) Grant grew up on a farm and was around horses since a very young age. He excelled in horsemanship at West Point Academy and rode throughout his military career during the Civil War. Over the course of his life he owned many horses. Some of these horses were gifts, some were imported Arabian stallions, some he won or took under his care during military campaigns and he was even known to have bought a horse to save it from being destroyed and rendered.

Which is not a name of one of Grant's horses?

A. York
B. Carbon
C. Jack
D. Fox
E. Kangaroo
F. Cincinnati
G. Egypt
H. Butcher Boy
I. Leopard
J. Linden Tree
K. Jeff Davis
L. Methuselah
M. Rondy

Answer: B. Carbon

(All of the other names listed were actual names of Grant's horses: 1 2)


6) In the years prior to the Civil War, Grant was primarily a farmer. The cabin that Grant built himself, for he and his wife soon after they were married in 1848, is preserved in its original location within a well known animal sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri.

Aside from the exotic wildlife of the animal sanctuary, what particular breed of well known horses are stabled on this property?

Hint: They symbolize a major local brand.

A: Clydesdale horses at Grant's Farm. Originally owned by the Busch family, of Anheuser-Busch Co. Inc.

"The company keeps a rotation of its famous Budweiser Clydesdales at its headquarters, and visitors to the brewery can observe the Clydesdales in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house. Some of the herd is kept at the company farm in St. Louis County. The farm, known as Grant's Farm (having been owned by former President Ulysses S. Grant at one time), is home to a menagerie of animals. Since 2008, approximately half of the Budweiser Clydesdales are kept at the Warmsprings Ranch." -from Wikipedia.org


7) Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant to officially end the Civil War? (Be specific. The name of the State alone will not be an acceptable answer.)

***The answer is one which is debated amongst historians, however all contestants seem to have understood this and answered correctly in regards to the place.***

A: Lee's surrendered his army to Grant on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.


8) What one particular clause, related to the theme of these questions, was requested by General Lee and accepted by General Grant, as a term of surrender of Lee's Army to Grant at the end of the Civil War?
A: Grant allowed the condition that they be allowed to keep their horses.

"Many a fighting man had one or more favorite mounts, entitled to bountiful corn and fodder, careful grooming, and a name of its own. One clause in the surrender terms at Appomattox in 1865 puzzled some people: every Confederate cavalryman was entitled to take his horse home with him. This provision, insisted on by Lee, was accepted by Grant when he was told that once they returned to civilian life, former soldiers wouldn't be able to plant spring crops without their war horses." from Famous Horses of the Civil War

Terms of Surrender:

General R.E. Lee,
Commanding C.S.A.
APPOMATTOX Ct H., Va.,

April 9,1865,

General; In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly [exchanged], and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked, and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the United States authorities so long as they observe their paroles, and the laws in force where they may reside.
Very respectfully,
U.S. Grant, 
Lieutenant-General

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9) Which horse is Grant most often depicted with (in drawings, reliefs, statues, etc.), such as in the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., at the base of Capitol Hill?

Hint: The horse's name is in the list of names in question #5.

A: Cincinnati (also referred to Cincinnatus)
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10) Who designed the 1922 Grant Centennial Gold Dollar Commemorative Coin and how was this person related to another famous U.S. coin designer?
A: Laura Gardin Fraser. Wife of James Earle Fraser of Buffalo nickel fame.

"Unlike many commemorative coins, which were the subject of seemingly endless debate and revision, the Grant Memorial gold dollar made it to the coin press with relatively little conflict. Of course, it helped that the sculptor member of the Fine Arts Commission, James Earle Fraser of Buffalo nickel fame, assigned the task to his wife, Laura Gardin Fraser. Mrs. Fraser was the creator of many commemorative coin designs, more so than any other artist save for the Mint's own Charles Barber. She worked from sketches submitted by the Centenary Memorial Association depicting a bust of Grant for the obverse and his Point Pleasant birthplace for the reverse." [quoted from the link above]

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Tie-breaker question:

11) Grant himself appeared on many issues of US Postage Stamps and US Paper Money. The 3¢ Army and Navy Commemorative Stamps – Issue of 1936-37 features three Civil War era Generals' portraits. Grant is one of them. One of the other two Generals appeared of three Series of US Paper Money with the same engraved portrait.

a) Which General was this?
A: General Philip H. Sheridan

b) Name any of the three currency Series that depict the General's same engraved portrait from the 1936-37 stamp.

A: General Philip H. Sheridan also appears on the:
• $5 Silver Certificate Series of 1896 "Educational Series",
• $10 Treasury or Coin Notes Series of 1890
• $10 Treasury or Coin Notes Series of 1891

c) Name the General's Civil War era ride? (Please provide the horse's name.)

A: Winchester, General Philip Sheridan's horse during the Civil War. Rienzi was also accepted as a correct answer.

"The Smithsonian has several animal soldiers in its collection, including a famous Civil War veteran named Winchester. On October 19, 1864, Winchester, then named Rienzi, carried Sheridan from Winchester, Virginia, to the battlefield at Cedar Creek, where the general roused his troops to repel a Confederate attack. The horse was renamed in honor of the victory, and "Sheridan's Ride" was immortalized in popular poems, songs, and artwork. After Winchester died in 1878, Sheridan had the horse stuffed and mounted, and he presented it to the Military Service Institution's museum in New York. In 1922, when these collections were transferred to the Smithsonian, Winchester received a military escort to his new home in Washington, D.C."

 

Congratulations on a nice contest, I ended up reading all sorts of stuff that I found interesting in the course of researching the contest. A pm is forthcoming.

 

Thank you!

As of today, 6/25, all prizes have been mailed to the winners!

I truly had a wonderful time putting together and running this contest.

Thank everyone for making it great!

 

I got them all, but I could not find the answer for #4.

Your answer for #3 is most interesting. You say Bedford Avenue and Dean Street. However, you have a link it to a picture of the monument (Google) while on Rogers Street.

 

3) The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant was originally situated in what was an open plaza but is now isolated in a narrow intersection of roadways, the plaza having given way to automobiles at: Bedford Avenue, Dean Street, Bergen Street and Rogers Avenue. [Google Maps] These streets surround and intersect the plaza where the statue remains situated.

Many contestants gave all, several or at the very least, enough of these streets that intersected, which I accepted for a correct answer. In my answer sheet I choose to provide the answer as noted above which is how it appears in the list of Selected Works on the Wikipedia page for William Ordway Partridge:

4) The New England magazine, Volume 22, March - August 1900. [Google Books] 'William Ordway Partridge, Sculptor' (pp 389-390):

 

Wow. Great contest and great prizes. Wish I could of got to a computer on my trip to finish my answers. Was in Queens and didn't make it over to Brooklyn. Would love to check that statue out in person. Congrats to all the winners!

 

Hey guys, Chris' Grant Memorial commem arrived today and I wanted to share some photos of it. I'm really thrilled to have won this coin and very proud to add it to my collection. :smile Enjoy the pics and Chris, I removed the coin from its holder for these shots....

 

Very nice! Glad you got the coin and most of all that you will enjoy this piece. Congrats and thanks for participating in my contest. :thumb:

 

Received mine today as well!!
Very nice Medal and I apprieciate the contest very much.

 

Great! Glad to hear the prizes are reaching everyone quickly and safely.

 

I received my Grant/Lincoln Medallion, it is in perfect shape, survived the journey well. Thanks for the contest.