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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1862 - The Virginia was launched.
1864 - The Hunley went back into the water and headed out of Charleston Harbor and approached the U.S.S. Housatanic. The Hunley torpedoed the other vessel and became the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. The Hunley sank before it returned to Charleston.
1865 - Soldiers under Union General William T. Sherman's amry ransacked Columbia, South Carolina. The army left three days later.
| "The dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. Mr. Matthew Brady has done something to bring us the terrible reality and earnestness of the war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along our streets, he has done something very like it." - The New York Times |
