Library of Congress Though the confederates had bombarded Fort Sumter two months earlier, signaling the start of the Civil War, there had ... On June 11, 1861, delegates from 32 counties in ...

May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil ... by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was going to ...

El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2023. Pp. xxiv, 336. Illus., maps, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 1611215927 The Confederacy's Best General? Prof. McMurray, noted ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...