http://www.historynet.com/grenade-the-little-known-weapon-of-the-civil-war.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:03:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/grenade-the-little-known-weapon-of-the-civil-war.htm/comment-page-1#comment-11196 Grenade!: The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War « Secondmdus’s Weblog Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:43:26 +0000 #comment-11196 [...] Grenade!: The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War “It was akin to shooting fish in a barrel. The Hoosiers of the 45th Illinois were pinned down in a crater that June 25, 1862, the result of a Union mine used in an attempt to blow up a section of the Rebel works at Vicksburg. The Federal attack had faltered in the reeking pit, and the Confederates had taken the opportunity to hurl ad hoc hand grenades, modified artillery shells, down up the helpless Yankees. A Union officer reported that “the enemy…with their hand-grenades render it difficult for our working parties to remain in the crater at all. The wounds inflicted by those missiles are frightful …” read more at http://www.historynet.com/grenade-the-little-known-weapon-of-the-civil-war.htm [...] [...] Grenade!: The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War “It was akin to shooting fish in a barrel. The Hoosiers of the 45th Illinois were pinned down in a crater that June 25, 1862, the result of a Union mine used in an attempt to blow up a section of the Rebel works at Vicksburg. The Federal attack had faltered in the reeking pit, and the Confederates had taken the opportunity to hurl ad hoc hand grenades, modified artillery shells, down up the helpless Yankees. A Union officer reported that “the enemy…with their hand-grenades render it difficult for our working parties to remain in the crater at all. The wounds inflicted by those missiles are frightful …” read more at http://www.historynet.com/grenade-the-little-known-weapon-of-the-civil-war.htm [...]

]]> http://www.historynet.com/grenade-the-little-known-weapon-of-the-civil-war.htm/comment-page-1#comment-930 Kevin Lonergan Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:48:16 +0000 #comment-930 Illinois as Hoosiers? That is a new one on me. I have heard the term Illinois Suckers; referring to suckers of young corn or the pioneers in the NW part of IL who stayed, and farmed and lead mined for the spring summer and then left after harvest. Anyone disagree? Illinois as Hoosiers? That is a new one on me. I have heard the term Illinois Suckers; referring to suckers of young corn or the pioneers in the NW part of IL who stayed, and farmed and lead mined for the spring summer and then left after harvest. Anyone disagree?

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