. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . beloved mother of presidents, into a streets of Baltimore became a scene of riot. Theguns of the navy boomed on the North Carolina men of the West moved on through Missouri, blazingtheir way with shot and shell. Through Kentuckyand Tennessee the reign of fire swept on until it re-echoedfrom Florida on the gulf to the wilderness of New Mexicoand the borderline of Texas. The American Republic was in the clutches of ter-rific conflict and in the first twelvemonths nearly a milli
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . beloved mother of presidents, into a streets of Baltimore became a scene of riot. Theguns of the navy boomed on the North Carolina men of the West moved on through Missouri, blazingtheir way with shot and shell. Through Kentuckyand Tennessee the reign of fire swept on until it re-echoedfrom Florida on the gulf to the wilderness of New Mexicoand the borderline of Texas. The American Republic was in the clutches of ter-rific conflict and in the first twelvemonths nearly a millionand a quarter of its manhood was fighting for the NationalFlag. There was no turning from the struggle. It mustbe waged to its deadliest end. From this moment, for fourdreadful years, fighting was taking place somewhere alongthe line every day and more than seven thousand battlesand skirmishes were fought on land and sea. Nearly three-fourths of the men who stood in the Unionranks in the Civil War were native-born Americans. Theothers were the best and bravest blood ot unp1 ^EY have fired on Fort Sumter!These are the words that rang acrossthe continent on the morning of thetwelfth of April, in 1861, and theecho was heard around the world. The shot thatbegan one of the fiercest conflicts that civilizationhas ever seen was fired just before sunrise atfour in the morning. Special editions of news-papers heralded the tidings through the of excited men crowded the was suspended. Night and day the peo-ple thronged the thoroughfares, eager to hear thelatest word from the scene of action. Fridayand Saturday were the most anxious days thatthe American people have ever the news came on Sunday morning thatMajor Robert Anderson had evacuated the fortwith flags flying and drums beating Yankee PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT FORT SUMTER IN IBOI Doodle, the North was electrified with patriot-ism. The stars and stripes were thrown to thebree
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