Today is the 150 anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The war started when the folks of South Carolina fired on a federal fort in Charleston Harbor at 4:30 A.M.. You can learn more at the History Channel. What would be more amazing to the soldiers in the fort than getting shot at is the fact that the fort now has a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a website. The website includes a video about the fort and the fun fact that the fort's commander knew the officer in charge of the Confederate bombardment-Colonel Anderson had been General Beauregard's artillery instructor at West Point! You just never know what your students will get up to.
Interestingly, while Chaffin's History has a nice bit on how the news of Lexington and Concord reached Easton on April 19, 1775, he has no report on how the news of Fort Sumter reached town. Within a few days, however, Easton men were headed to Washington. On the 18th the town lost its first soldier to poisoned whiskey (or whiskey poisoning) in New York Harbor where the men had witnessed the arrival of Colonel Anderson the commander of Fort Sumter.
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