Hay ciertos capítulos de la Historia que pasan de lo intrascendente a lo memorable o que resultan cómicos y trágicos a la vez. Los que se desarrollan en contextos bélicos deberían estar exentos de cualquiera de esas categorías por las condiciones especiales de dichos contextos pero, curiosamente, no sólo no es así sino que a veces nos proporcionan estrambóticas anécdotas que parecerían increíbles si fueran inventadas por un guionista de cine.Uno de los más inauditos es el que ocurrió el 25 de febrero de 1863 durante la Guerra de Secesión...
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etiquetas: guerra de secesión , batalla bolas de nieve , confederados
"This excerpt from A History of Kershaw's Brigade, a memoir written by an officer in the 3rd South Carolina, describes a large-scale snowball fight which took place between Confederate soldiers in the winter of 1862-1863."
www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/a-desperate-snow-bat
"'Two back-to-back snowstorms in February of 1863 provided the ammunition for a friendly snowball battle amongst rival divisions of Confederate troops near Fredericksburg, Virginia. On February 19, eight inches of snow fell on the region. Two days later, nine inches of snow fell. On February 25, sunny skies and mild temperatures softened the deep snow cover, providing ideal conditions for making snowballs.'
This is an excerpt from the book Washington Weather"
www.weatherbook.com/Snowball.htm
"During the American Civil War, on January 29, 1863, the largest military snow exchange occurred in the Rappahannock Valley in Northern Virginia. What began as a few hundred men from Texas plotting a friendly fight against their Arkansas camp mates soon escalated into a brawl that involved 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_fight#Largest_snowball_fights
Con referencia a: www.pha.jhu.edu/~dag/4thtex/history/history.html#jan63 [no funciona el enlace]