Civil War Interactive Newswire, your place to find out what is going on today in the Civil War also has a This Day in History where they tackle an event of this date back then. They also come up with great headlines. Yesterday's:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1865
TEASING TREASURY TRAPS TWO
I think they must use a thesaurus a lot.
During the war, a fire burned on top of Fort Fisher's "Mound" to signal when it was safe for blockade-runners to come in. Union forces, now occupying the fort, continued the tradition and it paid off.
Two blockade-runners, the Stag and the Charlotte ran through the Union fleet and were celebrating their success in the Cape Fear River when Union troops boarded and confiscated the ships and cargo.
I could just imagine the look on the captain's face of each vessel.
Dadburn, Sneaky Yankees. --Old B-Runner
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