You know what they say about full moons
A group of Union Army officers summoned to a photo op with General William Tecumseh Sherman outside Atlanta, Georgia. Man, do they look fed up. Probably had better things to do, like laying the South to waste.
I came across these daguerreotypes on the Web will trying to find out why February 1865 was the only month in recorded history that didn’t have a full moon.
That’s right, last month I became the 247-millionth Internet user to waste his time trying to get to the bottom of what turned out to be a hoax. There was, of course, a full moon in February 1865, on the 10th, to be exact. But someone started a rumour and it boiled itself into one of these meme things that just keeps going around and actually hasn’t stopped yet, because someone alerted me to this “fact” just recently. I’m not sure why, but it seemed interesting at the time. See the rest.
