Running the Blockade-- New News About an old war.
1. BLACK EYED PEAS-- Southern legend has it that eating black eyed peas on New Years Day will bring you fortune and good times. I even once heard that you'd get a buck for every one you ate. Just to be safe, I ate a LOT of them and had a stomach ache.
The legend also says that Union soldiers didn't destroy the plants as they were thought to be weeds. This enabled a lot of Southerners to survive.
2. OAKWOOD CEMETERY-- There was a ceremony at this cemetery in Wilmington, NC. Andrew Duppstadt was on the cannon crew from Fort Fisher, one of three artillery pieces there.
Many Confederates are buried in the cemetery including General Whiting, Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Captain John Newland Maffitt and Captain Joseph Price, the third and final commander of the CSS Neuse.
3. ALL 218 CONFEDERATE SHIPS-- The Southern Sentinel Blog reports that it will be taking the next two years to make entries on each of the 218 ships that served in the Confederate Navy.
Looking Forward to the List. --Old B-Runner
3. BUCKS TO BATTLEFIELDS--
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