Clay Davis’s Reviews > Bayonets, Balloons & Ironclads: Britain and France Take Sides with the South > Status Update

Learned that the pope did not support the secret Irish groups in Ireland.

Learned that philippic is a tirade.

Learned that a cap of a military uniform is enough to keep a soldier from being shot as a spy by the enemy.

Learned that Vanderbilt wanted to loan his yacht to the U.S. Navy to fight the C.S.S. Virginia.

Learned that no Dahlgren ever burst.