150 years ago today...

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

april 12, 1861.

Confederate batteries open up on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour marking the beginning of the U.S. Civil War.

Wow...

Not to detract from such a monumental event, but I can't help but think just how far military hardware has come in the last 150 years. Imagine how much higher the death toll would have been with modern weapons. As tragic and painful as the war was, (if it had to happen), best it happened then rather than now.