things that happened awhile ago

Florida Claims First Shots of the Civil War

Apparently a bunch of drunk locals may have been fired upon when they approached a federal fort in Pensacola in January of 1861, three months before the Battle of Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Historians aren’t entirely sure about the alleged gunfire, but the drunk-locals part sounds about right. [MSNBC]

Florida Claims First Shots of the Civil War