Today we're going to be talking about a different kind of human detritus, the Confederacy,

kind of.

Now, when I say the last place, the last location where the final shot of the American Civil War was fired,

you'd probably say like, I don't know, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, one of those other places we constantly make fun of, right?

Virginia.

Virginia. Why not Virginia?

What if I told you it was not any of those places?

It was not in the continental United States, and it wasn't even on land.

Instead, the last shot of the dying Confederacy came from the last ship in the Confederate Navy.

The CSS Shannon Doha

and it was fired across the

bow of a Union whaling ship

off the coast of the Aleutian Islands.

That's why John Denver wrote that line

Almost Heaven

Sinking sailboats

The Revolution. I would have thought it was going to be like in Brazil or something, like the Confederate Saddler parties. Well, the story does end in Brazil, kind of. Of course. You could probably imagine. I mean, there was this article 20 odd years ago that got digitized about a guy who went to Brazil and found a community of like the people descended from Confederates and fed and and talked to an old lady who was like nearing senility and he

said her accent was like the syruppiest thing you could ever imagine like it's just I can only so

yeah this is going to go some weird places I guess the extremity of the northern hemisphere and

the Southern Hemisphere is going to get you know the Confederates went worldwide I guess well theity of the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere is going to get, you know, the Confederates went worldwide, I guess. Well, the Confederates really liked

the same places that Nazis did. I was going worldwide in Europe now because every time

people fly their flag, they're like, I would be flying a swastika, but the law won't let me. Yeah.

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