On this day in 1864: Gen. Gabriel Rains of New Bern, whose use of land mines to stymie pursuing Union forces has already created outrage in the North, is appointed chief of the Confederacy’s newly created Torpedo Bureau. Under his supervision a variety of “torpedoes” (explosive devices he has patterned after a design by Samuel […]
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Confederate general had gift for blowing things up
Posted in On This Day, tagged confederate torpedo bureau, gabriel rains, new bern nc on June 17, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
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