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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Trivia - Abner Doubleday was one of the Union officers that occupied the Southern Ft. Sumter and precipitated the Civil War.

Yes. That Abner Doubleday.

9 posted on 03/25/2021 7:45:29 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)

To: MattMusson

Abner Doubleday was one of the Union officers that occupied the Southern Ft. Sumter and precipitated the Civil War.

Seated, on the left (from this week's Harper's Weekly).

10 posted on 03/25/2021 8:10:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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