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Tag Archives: weapons
“Yankee exploding ball”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 15, 1864: Accident from fire-arms. –Yesterday afternoon, a little free negro boy, named Lewis Harris, was seriously injured in one of his hands by the explosion of a Yankee exploding ball, in the Second … Continue reading
Flamethrowers for the Union Navy?
The editors of the Richmond Daily Dispatch were proud of the CSS Virginia as it held off the Union’s Monitor at Hampton Roads. The South was seemingly competitive with the North in ironclad technology. Here the newspaper reports that Yankees … Continue reading
“will this do to kill a Yankee?”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 6, 1862: Return of arms. –As we predicted in our notice, under the head of “Arming the People,” the Ordnance Department of Virginia. corner of 7th and Cary streets, was crowded yesterday with our … Continue reading
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Using Oil As a Weapon
It didn’t take long. In 1859 Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. 150 years ago this week there was at least speculation about possible destructive uses of the material that was becoming more and more available. … Continue reading
More Self-Help – from Across The Pond
“From loyal Americans in Europe to the United States Government, 1861.” From The New-York Times May 24, 1861: PATRIOTIC AMERICANS ABROAD.; A BATTERY OF WHITWORTH GUNS PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNMENT. A battery of the celebrated Whitworth guns, twelve-pounders, with ammunition … Continue reading
