Selasa, 18 April 2017

Heart of the Southern War Machine: The Augusta Powder Works was an unparalleled accomplishment of military industry

A bearded Confederate colonel walked slowly to a tall flag pole and looked up at the oversized garrison banner snapping in the brisk afternoon breeze. It was late April 1865. President Jefferson Davis was escaping south, and the corpse of Abraham Lincoln was heading by rail to its final resting place in Illinois. With a …

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