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John Patterson Hall, Civil War Veteran Multi-Cache

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isht kinta: Since the cache owner has not responded to my reviewer log requesting the geocache be maintained, the geocache has been archived.

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Hidden : 10/9/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are seeking a short two stage multi cache that beings at the grave of John Patterson Hall, a Veteran of the Civil War.


The History of Lumsden’s Battery lists three Hall men that served in the battery. One of these was noted as giving his life for the cause in Mississippi early in the war.

 

John Patterson Hall served in this battery as a Private. He is listed as being wounded Spanish Fort where the battery was engaged early in the war.

 

Just prior to being sent to Spanish Fort, the battery was in Mobile and was ordered to participate in a troop review by General Maury …

 

“…  General Maury held a review of his army on Government Street. We were ordered in. We had in our company, several soldiers, who had neither coat nor pants. They were down to shirts and drawers, as nothing had come to them from Tuscaloosa, they being from another section. Captain Lumsden sent for them and told them he would not insist on their going on parade, in that condition, but that if they would, he did not doubt, that it would result in getting them some clothing. They decided to go. So, when the parade was formed on Government Street, for General Maury's inspection, these men showed up in the front rank, and caught the General's eye. He rode up to Lumsden and asked: "Captain, what does that mean, those men in ranks, in that condition?"

 

"They have no clothing, Sir, but what they have on, and I have exhausted all means to obtain it, by requisition after requisition."

 

"Can't you think of some way, Captain?"

 

"If you will allow me to detail a man to go to Tuscaloosa, I do not doubt we can get all the clothes needed, in some way."

 

"All right, Captain, make the detail, I will endorse it, approved."

 

"Thank you, Sir, we will attend to it at once."

 

(From A History of Lumsden’s Battery)

 

 

To locate the final, solve:

 

33 15.6AB 

 

87 40.6CD   

 

A = The third digit in the year of his birth.

 

B = Add together the first and second digits in the date of his death.

 

C = The second digit in the date of his death.

 

D = Add together the first digit in the date if his birth to the fist digit in the date of his death.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chyy naq pngpu ba n ebnq fvqr gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)