Posted on 04/13/2015 11:02:03 AM PDT by dware
A photograph that has posed a Civil War mystery, puzzling historians for three decades, appears to be a long-surviving hoax.
The mysterious photograph of what appeared to be a far older photo showing a figure in a coat and hat and the blurred image of a warship surfaced in 1986. Some historians believed it might be a photo of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad that sank 150 years ago in Georgia as Union troops captured Savannah.
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Thanks dware. Pretty naughty.
Hillary! Dodging sniper fire...
It looks like the Merrimac (sp?). The other one, the North’s was the Monitor (Cheese box on a raft).
I read Guns of the South about the same time I read Camp of the Saints.
They sorta go together as a concept.
Both are prescient in their own way, and although they’re fiction both made me see the world more accurately.
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