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 ...

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 ...

Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West ... notably the so-called “Mormon War.” Chapter 3 addresses Johnston’s service for the Confederacy in 1861, during which he ...

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 ...