To: GinJax
Blockade runners, which were built for speed, were used to get supplies to Southerners during the Civil War - then take cotton and textiles back to England and Bermuda, Amer said.
Supplies from England? Say it ain't so! :)
3 posted on
09/15/2006 6:57:59 AM PDT by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: P-40
Well - the civil war was 100 years after the Revolutionary
War and the scars had healed. So, yes supplies were going TO England.
BTW Georgetown has the greatest number of haunted houses in South Carolina -according to Richard Davis, the "flipping realtor" formerly A&E's "Flip this House"
4 posted on
09/15/2006 7:24:01 AM PDT by
sodpoodle
(I have no idea how I got here - but I like it and I plan to stay.)
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