it's funny, the most I learned about the Civil War was from a multi-volume history called 'The History of the English-speaking Peoples' (you couldn't even use a title like that today..;)  written by Winston Churchill..;)

I guess it was just bragging by the local re-enactors or something (tried that once, wool uniforms are scratchy..;)

I guess it depends on what military the South had during the debacle at Sumpter.  If NC had volunteer units (probably just artillery at that point, at Sumpter), it's vaguely possible..;)

Most of the Civil War history is taught like trivia nowadays..it's just disconnected, facts, like the woman who got impregnated by a minie ball, what torpedoes were back then (as opposed to now), etc. This, despite being the most written-about conflict (in the 1990s, there were over 60,000). go figure.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)