Good morning.
We’ll have an increasingly cloudy day with a high of forty-seven.
At 3 PM, there will be a municipal meeting to discuss a marketing program for the City of Whitewater.
At 6:30 PM, there will be a Police & Fire commission meeting.
On this day in 1865, Gen. Grant achieves a Union victory, one in a string that rapidly take the war to its end:
After a ten-month siege, Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his troops on a desperate retreat westward.
The ragged Confederate troops could no longer maintain the 40-mile network of defenses that ran from southwest of Petersburg to north of Richmond, the Rebel capital 25 miles north of Petersburg. Through the winter, desertion and attrition melted Lee’s army down to less than 60,000, while Grant’s army swelled to over 120,000. Grant attacked Five Forks southwest of Petersburg on April 1, scoring a huge victory that cut Lee’s supply line and inflicted 5,000 casualties. The next day, Lee wrote to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, “I think it absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position tonight…”
We’re mid-week in Puzzability’s Breaking Bad series – here’s Wednesday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — March 31-April 4
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Breaking Bad
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You’ll be gathering a rogues’ gallery this week. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the name of a well-known movie villain.
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Example:
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Regular / pen point / starts a poker pot
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Answer:
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Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the character name and the smaller words (as “Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, April 2
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