Ask your fishmonger or oyster shucker about the harvest date. It can be found on the bag tag, which is a slip of paper that comes in every bag of oysters. Growers are required to provide them and sellers are required to keep them on hand. Myth #2: Oysters are delicious, but not that nutritious.
General view of the burned district of Richmond (Library of Congress). On May 20 [1861], the Confederate Congress voted to move the government to Richmond...With that, Virginia's capital had become the very symbol of the Confederacy, and the ultimate prize in a bloody war.
The battle of Shiloh, which occurred from April 6 to 7, 1862 in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, was the bloodiest Civil War battle in Civil War history or U.S. history up to that point. It played a relatively important role in Union progress in the western theater and the Union victory gave Tennessee to the North.