Some of the firsts of the Civil War include: the first periscope (used in trench warfare), the first successful submarine (the Hunley named after the inventor and made from an old steam boiler), the first repeating rifles, the first rifle scopes, first ironclad navies, first army ambulance corps, first workable machine gun, first cigarette tax, […]
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#Battle, The #CivilWar in New Mexico
On this day in 1862, Union forces by a stroke of luck halted the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, at that time including Arizona. The Confederates hoped to capture New Mexico and other parts of the West. There were other reasons, but the cash-strapped Confederacy wanted the western mines for the gold and silver. From San Antonio, the […]
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A not too well-known Union general did something unusual following the Civil War. General Montgomery C. Meigs fought in the war, but he is most known for his architect work later. What he did was create a massive time capsule with one of his structures. In the 18801’s, for the US Pension Building in Washington […]
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[maxbutton id=”3″ url=”http://localhost:8888/curt ” text=”Watch Exciting Trailers for Novels” ] Did you know that criminal agents kidnapped Canadian men for service in the union army in the civil War? During the war, certain civilians, called “Crimps”, enticed unknowing Canadian men with too much drink or drugged them, then enrolled them in a regiment in the […]
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[maxbutton id=”3″ url=”http://localhost:8888/curt” text=”Watch the Exciting Book Trailers” ] Did you know…? General Joe Hooker wanted the men to have additional comforts during their marches and camping, so he allowed “ladies of the evening” to accompany the troops. These trollops set up tents outside the camps, hung a red lantern and made a handy profit. […]
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[maxbutton id=”6″ text=”Read My Blogs” ] I was reading recently in a recent poll of Millenial aged persons that half of them said they would rather live under socialism or Communism rather than capitalism. They don’t know about how the leader of the Communist party, Nikita Kruschev, in the 1960’s banged his shoe at the […]
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