>>Speaking of the civil war, did you know that the last shot fired was fired up in the arctic long after the war had officially ended?
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>Now I'm curious. I remember reading something like that but I thought officially it came from the CSS Shenandoah...
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>(I also read a report that claimed the last shot was fired in Texas)

It was the Shenandoah, but it was up by the Aleutians. That's why they didn't get word that the war was over until long after it actually was. It was a confederate ship commanded by a North Carolinian named 'Waddell'.