. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . K 1~ Si. MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON AND FAMILY This Federal major of artillery was summoned on April 11, 1861, to surrenderFort Sumter and the property of the government whose uniform he half-past four the following morning the boom of the first gun from FortJohnson in Charleston Harbor notified the breathless, waiting world thatwar was on. The flag had been fired on, and hundreds of thousands of liveswere to be sacrificed ere the echoes of the great guns
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . K 1~ Si. MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON AND FAMILY This Federal major of artillery was summoned on April 11, 1861, to surrenderFort Sumter and the property of the government whose uniform he half-past four the following morning the boom of the first gun from FortJohnson in Charleston Harbor notified the breathless, waiting world thatwar was on. The flag had been fired on, and hundreds of thousands of liveswere to be sacrificed ere the echoes of the great guns died away at the end offour years into the sobs of a nation whose best and bravest, North and South,had strewn the many battlefields. No wonder that the attention of the civil-ized world was focussed on the man who provoked the first blow in the great-est conflict the world has ever known. He was the man who handled thesituation at the breaking point. To him the North looked to preserve theFederal property in Charleston Harbor, and the honor of the National action of the South depended upon his decision. He played the part ofa tru
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