We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:52:44 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. Before. During. Oh, what a wonderful show! This is Fort Sumter today, her upper tier gone, with the remains of her WWI Endicott-era Battery Huger, which mounted two 12-inch rifles. During WWII Fort Sumter had two 90mm anti-aircraft guns installed. She became a National Monument in 1948. For all the smoke and flame of the first battle of the Civil War, no one died. The first soldier killed by the war died on April 14, 1861, the day after the battle of Fort Sumter ended. Private Daniel Hough died when the cannon he was loading... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:53:37 -0600 Yeah but they did get a horse. Wont somebody think of the animals! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58828 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58828 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:24:33 -0600 Barb - Now you know why sojers are so fond of overhead cover. The *thick* kind... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58824 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58824 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:49:42 -0600 Good history post for the day - and I learned something new (again). Never had a clue that in all that "bombs bursting in air" no one was killed. Hard to fathom. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58812 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires12_apr.html#comment-58812 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:00:56 -0600