150th anniversary- Battle of Gettysburg

[Vampire]

Today is the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.

http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/150...737440118/

Seems like a day worth marking.

[PaulW]

Welcome to Punaweb. This forum is meant for Hawaii-related items. Thank you for your co-operation.

[Vampire]

I am guessing you did not know that 110 documented Hawaiians, people born in Hawaii, many of them Native Hawaiians, fought for the Union & Confederacy, and that 12 native Hawaiians served on the CSS Shenandoah, the only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe. Installed near the overlook at the national memorial cemetery of the pacific is a plaque honoring those Hawaiians who served in the Civil War.


Apologies if this topic was somehow out of bounds here.

[PaulW]

Sigh

[Guest]

Worry not, PaulW has a special kind of stick stuck up his ass.

Thank you for posting such interesting information about Hawaiians in the Civil war, I never would have known otherwise.

[dragon2k]

Hey great info about Hawaiians in the civil war! Thanks for sharing. Please ignore the troll.

[PaulW]

The Battle of Gettysburg is not an important event in Hawaiian history, by any stretch of the imagination.
By the way, you got the date wrong.

[rainyjim]

Another interesting footnote regarding Hawaii and the civil war includes the beautiful hawaiian tree fern the Hapu'u.

During the civil war the United States suffered a severe cotton shortage ( all the cotton producing states were part of the Confederacy ) since cotton was do expensive to import from a foreign state Americans instead decided to source the pulu or hair of the Hapu'u tree fern. This pulu was used as a stuffing for pillows and mattresses for a short time until people eventually realized that the pulu would...for lack of better description...lose its "fluffiness" and deflate ... Luckily the civil war was over shortly and cotton supplies quickly replenished. By the way, the remnants of an old pulu factory can still be seen inside the Hawaii volcano national park on the Napau crater trail.

[ericlp]

Amazing stuff... Who would have thought that in Puns back in the day.

[Greg]

I'm a little rusty on history; Is that the battle where Kamehameha threw Pickett's Division over the cliff?