150 years ago today...

[Danzig]

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honestly, i'm surprised no one already started a thread about this....surely i'm not the only history buff here?
at any rate, i'm in the midst of shelby foote's 3 volumes about the civil war, with the siege of vicksburg about to commence....i recommend the books to anyone with a slight interest or a love of reading.

a somber day. whenever i visit a civil war battlefield, the word that most comes to mind is poignant. it's a shame it had to come to war; reading that 600,000 were lost to settle differences is mind-boggling, and a crying shame. hopefully, we learn from our past.