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    • Whiskey Bombs

    • Whiskey Bombs
    • Whiskey
    • Whisky Bombs In the second year of the Civil War in August, in 1862, a Union fleet under the command of Lt. J.W. Kittredge sailed into Corpus Christi Bay, threatening the city. He was opposed by a makeshift Confederate force with two old...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Baughman, Jack

    • Baughman, Jack
    • Photograph
    • Photograph of entrance to the Ney Bat Cave, Medina County, Texas. The scaffolding is the work of a government operation during World War II when bats were being tried out as carriers of some incendiary bombs. So successful was this project, that...
    • Individual and Family Papers
    • Shooting At The Clouds

    • Shooting At The Clouds
    • Rainmaking Experiment
    • Shooting At The Clouds During a devastating drought, South Texans in 1891 began to look seriously at rain-making experiments based on a book, "War and the Weather." The author of this book held that during the Civil War, heavy ...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips

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