In something out of a suspense movie, in 1970 a shooting on a nearly inaccessible ice island left a Navy research division desperately seeking answers- How do authorities deal with an alleged murder in one of the most remote places on the planet? The shocking Murder on Fletcher’s Ice Island deserves to be remembered.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.