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160 years since the attack on Fort Sumter: The beginning of the American Civil War
At 4:30 in the morning on April 12, 1861, the South Carolina militia lobbed a 10-inch mortar over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The first shot of the Civil War was a signal for a bombardment. After 33 hours and several thousand more shells, the beleaguered federal garrison at Fort Sumter surrendered to forces of the new slave republic, the Confederate States of America.
The Civil War raged on for four more years, until the surrender of Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. In between, some 750,000 Americans died in the fighting, according to the best estimates.
but i don t know if maybe we should have gone with a different option, okay? so what lincoln s hoping is that enough confederate leaders are going to start to say, look, let s see if we can t come up with a compromise. he does not want to give them a crisis to rally behind. when you are trying to talk a guy down from a fight, y all are going to go to parties this weekend, all right, and it ll happen. if it didn t happen this weekend, it happened last weekend. two guys are going to want to get in a fight, all right? hopefully some of you guys are going to be, guys, come on, seriously, back down. the way to stop the fight is not to sucker punch one of the guys in the face, all right? lincoln s saying, don t do anything. everybody just chill out. okay? but he s got to provide some sort of support to major anderson. so on april 6th, april 6th, 1861, lincoln s going to send a message to the governor of south carolina and say, look, his last name is pickens if you re curious. franc