On April 10th

On April 10, 1834, a kitchen fire revealed enslaved people held in brutal conditions; contemporary newspaper accounts document the rescue. The documented date is 1834-04-10. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Delphine LaLaurie'. T

When fire broke out in the LaLaurie kitchen on April 10, 1834, neighbors who rushed in to help found a chained, enslaved cook — and, in the attic, imprisoned enslaved people showing evidence of brutal mistreatment. A mob gutted the Royal Street house that same night, and Delphine LaLaurie fled to France. The scandal made her name a synonym for cruelty in New Orleans memory for nearly two centuries

Fort Pulaski fell in April 1862 to rifled cannon; it later held the "Immortal 600" Confederate prisoners deliberately starved in 1864–65. The documented date is 1862-04-10–1865-03-01. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Fort Pulaski National Monument' documents the entry. It

In April 1862, Union batteries opened on Fort Pulaski with experimental rifled cannon — and breached its 'impregnable' walls in thirty hours. The fort's fall closed Savannah's port and, more importantly, ended the age of masonry fortifications worldwide; visitors can still see shells embedded in the walls and the breach scars the NPS chose never to repair.

In spring 2026 the USS Lexington Museum advertised a 'Blue Ghost' overnight paranormal investigation: guests could board from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m., tour six below-deck sectors, and sleep in crew quarters — the museum leaning into a haunting reputation earned from wartime deaths aboard the carrier, including the 1944 kamikaze strike that killed nearly 50 crewmen.