Running the Blockade-- Civil War News
1. The Drunk Driver Showed no Respect to Confederate Dead-- The Jan. 28th Fredericksburg, Texas, Free Lance Star reports that a man was charged with drunk driving after crashing into the wall of the city's Confederate cemetery. Casey Theodore Kearns lost control of his vehicle at 1 am and knocked down an eight foot stretch and causing $10,000 in damage. Wonder what he was doing at that late time?
This is the tenth time in the last 24 years the cemetery has been hit. Community service should be tospend hours cleaning the cemetery.
2. Savannah Lee-Jackson Dinner-- The Jan. 28th Savannah Morning News reported that 150 attended the annual Lee-Jackson dinner hosted by the Camp Davis 2703 Guyton SCV camp.
3. USS Monitor Launch Anniversary-- On January 30, 1862, the launching of the USS Monitor, the first turreted vessel in naval history, occurred. Considering the momentous battle with the CSS Virginia took place just a little over a month later, it came just in the knick of time.
4. Cavalry Re-enactment in Hanover, Pa.-- From the Jan. 25th Evening Sun serving Gettysburg and Hanover, Pa.-- Sharon Dheppard is proceeding with plans to bring more than 200 cavalry re-enactors to her property in July in a recreatin of JEB Stuart's ride to gettysburg.
Plans call for them to leave Union Mills at 9 am and travel as much of the original route as possible.
The article didn't mention which side would be making the ride, but I imagine it would be Confederate.
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