THEY USED HEMP BALES FOR COVER WHILE THEY ADVANCED THEIR ATTACK! #shorts

At the First Battle of Lexington on September 19th, 1861, the Confederates soaks hemp bales in the river overnight and then used them as protection from the Union's deadly hot shot cannons.

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