ASHEBORO — During World War I, on Aug. 16, 1918, the German submarine U-117 torpedoed the British freighter S.S. Mirlo off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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welcome back. later today two u.s. navy sailors who died during the civil war will be buried with full honors at arlington. the sailors served on the u.s.s. monitor back in 1862. first ever battle between two ironclad ships. the monitor sank. the remains of the sailors survived 150 years on the ocean floor. barbara star has their story. reporter: shoes worn by a sailor 150 years ago perhaps in the final moments of his life on board the u.s.s. monitor, a renowned civil war with battleship. this is extraordinary. we are looking mismatched, but a pair of shoes that one of the sailors wore. he had a different shoe on the left foot than on his right. it s hard to explain why. one of the possible options is as the guys were leaving the ship the night of the sinking it
the general who had basically set up a series of defenses around the city of vicksburg, trying to hold off all of the federals. and, of course, that fellow all of his people were starving. and so the message, apparently, was a response to the general who was under siege in the city. and the message, as it was decoded reads general pemberton, you can expect no hell from this side of the river. let general johnson know if possible when you can attack the same point on the enemy s line inform me also and i will endeavor to make a diversion. i shall join a dispatch from general johnson. end quote. that little piece of paper, that s what that says right in there. exactly. listen, does this change the course of history in any way? does it change anything about the civil war? what we ve learned, what we re going to be teaching about it or should be teaching? it probably doesn t revolutionize our studies of the war. i think it certainly helped to energize them.
software? well, you could use that today. but back in the civil war, people would either use a metal decoder ring that would bear some resemblance to the one that folks might have seen on a christmas story movie. or they could use a table that basically is a bunch of alpha t alphabets that are slightly staggered. it s a little bit complicated. but you can sit down and figure it out with a paper and pencil. tell me, who do you think sent this message and what does this tell you about the state of the war on that day? okay. well, if you imagine the city of vicksburg perched on the east side of the mississippi river, there s an important strong hold in the civil war because it basically would control who had access to to the river, which was a main route of transportation. and the person who sent a message was a confederate general who was stationed on the opposite side of the river. so he was sending the message to