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  • March 13, 2010 at 7:58 pm #2013 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Today in 1863:

    March 13, 1863 An explosion in the Confederate Ordinance Laboratory on Brown's Island in the James River near Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond kills 69 people, 62 of them women and young girls. A friction primer exploded.

    http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186303

    March 16, 2010 at 6:25 pm #19490 Reply
    Hunleyfan
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    same thing happended in jackson ms

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