I’ve begun reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as everyone is telling me it is a must read if you are travelling to Savannah. I can see why! 30 pages in and I have already read about numerous locations and the street that I am staying at has already been mentioned!
The picture above is the cover of the book, which is a picture of the bird girl sculpture in Bonaventure Cemetery. Apparently after the book was released, it was a huge hit and thousands of tourists have since traveled to the cemetery to look at the statue. This caused the owners of the statue to donate it to a museum in Savannah to avoid tourists disturbing the cemetery.
Savannah, GA
My next series of posts are going to be dedicated to history of Savannah, GA.
I will be travelling there for my honeymoon in less than a month and I have never been there before. I look forward to uncovering some interesting history about this city that I have always heard great things about.
The Original Ferris Wheel from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower on 3 June 1902, at 9:20 pm
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. Two related battles were fought nearby on May 3 in the vicinity of Fredericksburg. The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Chancellorsville is known as Lee’s “perfect battle” because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory. The victory, a product of Lee’s audacity and Hooker’s timid decision making, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson to friendly fire, a loss that Lee likened to “losing my right arm.”
Source: collective-history
WW1 Technology! Giant listening horns used to listen for approaching aircraft during WWI. Image on display at the Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Credit: Curious Expeditions #
Soldiers of the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, in trenches before storming Marye’s Heights at the Second Battle of Fredericksburg during the Chancellorsville campaign, Virginia, May 1863. This photograph (Library of Congress #B-157) is sometimes mistakenly labeled as taken at the 1864 Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
Source: collective-history
Map of the first Transcontinental Telegraph line (1862)
Those who threaten are afraid
