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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Aug 27, 2006
Description: On the way back we flew past City Point, which is now a National Park. Lincoln visited it in 1865 on his way to Richmond while it was still smouldering after the Confederates burnt it.

But a few months earlier it was the site of what today would be called terrorist activity when one 'Captain' John Maxwell (no relation of mine) secreted what he called 'a horological torpedo'--a time bomb--aboard a supply ship docked there. When the bomb went off it sent pieces of ship and cargo all over the area. One big chunk of proto-schrapnel went zinging over General US Grant's head and landed beside his tent.

After the war, Maxwell applied for a patent for his horological torpedo, but the U.S. Patent Office turned it down, despite there being no prior art.
Date Taken: Aug 27, 2006
Place Taken: City Point (near Hopewell) VA
Owner: Don Maxwell
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