Kamis, 21 September 2017

Hell in the Harbor

Accurate Rebel ‘shot and shell’ terrified Fort Sumter’s garrison. Charleston Harbor, April 1861: Three hours before dawn, a single shell announced the war’s beginning. Suddenly something flashed and boomed ashore. In Fort Sumter men keeping watch saw the projectile  coming toward them, arcing clean and high, like a small comet tracing its course among the …

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