Nearly forgotten amid the Union victories of 1863 was the Union attempt to bring the war back to where it started: Charleston, South Carolina. The siege of Charleston became the site of numerous engineering innovations that presaged warfare of the next 60 years, as the North tried to take the city and fort that symbolized the birth of secession.
A Brief History of Sugar.While sugar is everywhere now, in fact almost impossible to avoid, that has not always been the case. Humans and sugar have had a long history, and it has driven human civilization in significant ways.