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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

150th ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.  The next day, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort.  Two days later, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern "insurrection."

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