[smug]

The one thing I have never understood and have not found an explanation for, is the firing on the (forgot the name) a merchant ship carrying ice? I am sure several ice houses were waiting on that ice.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The one thing I have never understood and have not found an explanation for, is the firing on the (forgot the name) a merchant ship carrying ice?

The "Rhoda Shannon." I think it's usually attributed to trigger happy South Carolinians and a ship's captain who didn't know the situation he was sailing into and made the mistake, after the first shots across his bow, of raising the Stars and Stripes.