8 overlooked Civil War moments from 1864 that could have changed history

Mike Musick A stealthy slaughter Retired subject area expert for the U.S. Civil War at the National Archives It may not have surprised many of those blown into eternity at City Point, Va., on Aug. 9, 1864, that their deaths produced no great outpouring of grief across the Union. After all, there had been much dying in the Old Dominion and elsewhere. Moreover, the explosion was chalked up to an accident, the result of carelessness in the loading of ordnance onto a barge at the huge supply base on...