Some New News About an Old War.
1. McDONNELL AGAIN-- Roanaoke (Va) WDBJ reported April 20th that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell went to Chancellorsville Battlefield to announce the creation of a permanent state fund to preserve Civil War sites. He ceremonially signed the Virginia Civil War Sites Preservation. It is now permanent, but had already saved 2,000 battlefields and action sites across Virginia.
2. GREAT LAKES-- The April 20th Port Clinton (Ohio) News Herald announced that May 3rd the Sanduskey Maritime Museum would have a talk by Frederick Stonehouse on the Civil War on the Great Lakes. The Great lakes contributed greatly to the Union's eventual victory and there were Confederate plots to attack the unprotected Great Lakes. Definitely a little-known aspect of the war.
3. MATTHEW MAURY-- The good folks at HMDB went to Virginia and spotlighted a marker to Confederate seaman and inventor Matthew Fontaine Maury "In this house Matthew Fontaine Maury L.L.D., USN, CSN invented the submarine electric torpedo 1861-1862." Placed by the Confederate Literary Society AD 1910.
Now You Know. --Old B-Runner
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