Running the Blockade-- New News About an old war.
1. MAGEE CLOSING?-- News out of Alabama reports that the site referred to as "The Last Appomattox" where Lt. general Richard Taylor, son of US President Zachary Taylor, surrendered the last organized group of Confederates east of the Mississippi River, might be in operation just until the end of this month.
It marked the end of operations around Mobile, Alabama and is located near the intersection of US-45 and Ala-158.
Jan. 5, 2010, Mobile (Al) Press-Register
2. GALVESTON-- The city is having tours to commemorate the anniversary of the recapture of Galveston by Confederates on January 1, 1863, this weekend.
Some interesting facts about the battle:
** It lasted three hours and Confederates took the city back from Union forces who had held it for three months.
** The last major Confederate port and the only one recaptured.
** It was an almost simultaneous land and water attack.
** There was a wading charge of 500 soldiers near the wharf.
** Galveston Confederate papers were printing in Houston at the time. The telegraph lines were still operational and accounts of the battle were coming in as they were happening, essentially live news coverage.
So, Now You Know. --Old B-R
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