Running the Blockade: Some New News About an Old War.
1. AT FORT FISHER-- Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Shaw made a $103,000 endowment to the St. Andrews Scottish Heritage Center. They told of their ancestry, and their grandfather, John W. Shaw was captured at Fort Fisher and imprisoned at Elmira Prison in New York.
2. GETTING THAT CANNON BUG-- You say you've always wanted to fire a cannon. Well, now is your chance. Vicksburg National Military Park is looking for volunteers to dress as Civil War soldiers and fire the park's 12-pounder Napoleon cannon.
3. LINCOLN SIGNED IT-- The October 20th Fox 28 TV in South Bend, Indiana, says that a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln is on display at the Center for History in South Bend. It is on loan from Indiana University. It was printed a year after the original and signed by Lincoln to be sold at a charity auction.
4. EXPLOSIONS IN SAVANNAH-- The October 20th Savannah Now reported that the explosions heard in town the night before were from the movie "Conspirator" which is being filmed there. Savannah is standing in for Washington, DC. Robert Redford is directing it and it is about the trial of Mary Suratt. The explosions were fireworks celebrating the end of the Civil War.
Now, You Know. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
