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Maple Leaf down

150 years ago today: “The Federal army transport Maple Leaf strikes a Confederate torpedo in the St. John’s River, Florida, and sinks off Mandarin Point” Here’s how folks in Richmond got the news. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 6, … Continue reading

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