Lincoln's beard

[AussieMick]

Yes!!! Well done, Roger. And sorry to all the others that struggled with my "clues".

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(02-12-2018 02:23 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Yes!!! Well done, Roger. And sorry to all the others that struggled with my "clues".

from wikipedia :-

"Together, 140 Australians and New Zealanders were veterans of the American Civil War, 100 of whom were native-born.[1] Some of these were originally Americans who came to Australia during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s.[2] Officers during the war included one who gave Tasmania its first telegraph service, and another officer who mined for gold in Ballarat."

More detail on this :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_...Shenandoah

Also "It is a matter of odd historical fact that the last shot of the American Civil War was a blank fired at a New Bedford whaling ship in the Bering Sea off Siberia on June 22, 1865, more than a month after the conflict had actually ended. To understand this bizarre event in this peculiar location, we need to briefly recount the voyage of the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah, an extraordinary epic of seafaring long neglected as a minor footnote to maritime history."
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/css-she...ar.111978/

And Dabney Scales Diary