A look at the Irish enlistment during the US Civil War era. There is little doubt that many Irishmen enlisted in the Union army very shortly after their arrival in the United States.
The Civil War began on April 12th, 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, a Union-held fort, in Charleston Bay, South Carolina, and would last for four bloody years, with a staggering loss of lives on both sides.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You’ve probably heard that before, and it means that sometimes your best efforts can fail horribly. Even
so true. bob you told us when the wind shifts you re at the high tide cycle right now but this high tide won t be able to flow back out to the bay so that s kind of the cumulative effect that becomes the problem knifing the day tomorrow. yep. and we ve been watching clear water bay behind us, which is clearly a smaller body of water but that s been riding high on this side as the wind s been pushing into us for the entire evening. it will be interesting to see exactly when that wind shift occurs and how high that storm surge is going to get. you know how it goes, a little bit of a storm surge comes in and then it comes roaring in right behind that. so i haven t seen that yet but like they taught us as kids, never turn your back to the ocean or the gulf. i m not going to be doing that because i can see what s going to happen if that wind shifts and the wind is this strong. bob, we re getting into the of the night now i know evacuation orders have been put in place especially for
again. that could be a long period of time. because the way this storm is coming in parallel to the beach, we could see that thing with the southwest winds for at least 12-16, maybe 18 hours. that would keep that water elevated, for sure. and here we are. this is the strongest rain band that we have seen so far today, it s the biggest one, the fattest rain drops and, yeah, nothing water proof when you have 45 mile per hour winds. ian. yeah. so it s a soggy bob van dillen no question. i worked down there bob back in 2020, that was the hurricane season that never ended, we went through the regular name list into the greek list, and it was eta, that was a tropical storm roughly the same distance out from where idalia is, that kicked up a surge of 3-4 feet in the bay and a lot of folks kind of slept on it because it was just a tropical storm and we were on what felt like our 50th named storm of the season. so, yes, that s the issue.