Friday, May 02, 2008 - 10:38 pm
Damn!
Especially impressive is the part where it says it put a piece of shrapnel through a porch 1/4 mile away!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353998,00.html
Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 1:18 am
Did the South lose the war because they had crappy military equipment, killing more Confederates than Union soldiers?
Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 4:41 am
Most likely his claim to fame will be as the final casuality of the Civil war......
Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 10:36 am
"Did the South lose the war because they had crappy military equipment, killing more Confederates than Union soldiers?"
Drive through certain parts of the South and as far as they're concerned, the war is still going on.
Monday, May 05, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Given that the north had most of the industrial technology, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the southern equipment was inferior.
Then again, cannons blew up regularly back then.
Monday, May 05, 2008 - 4:09 pm
And yet they employed the first real submarine in war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.L._Hunley
Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:39 pm
Read this about successful and unsuccessful Civil War weapons innovations.
