Issue 115 - Things that make you go 'Mooh!'

In WSS 115, we turn our eye to the innovations that were introduced during the American Civil War. By 1864, the war in the east had turned into a protracted siege. With supply-lines badly restricted, the Confederacy launched a raid to capture some of the thousands of heads of cattle kept at a plantation behind Union lines. It turned into the 'Beefsteak raid'.

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