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Letters Trace Civil War for Writer's Forebears
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON (AP) - Alone in his hotel room after a solemn dinner with his brother, the newly enlisted Army surgeon took up pen and paper to make the first installment on his promise. "I have a few moments," he wrote to his wife, just 10 miles up the coast in Lynn. "I am in such a whirl that I can hardly think much less write." Just four days earlier, on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery had fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, igniting the Civil War. On April 15, President Abraham Lincoln issued an urgent appeal "to all loyal citizens," seeking 75,000 volunteers to quell the ...
Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy. That's according to a new CNN poll released on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, when Union soldiers raised a U.S. flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the opening shots of the war rang out. The poll's results reveal that the war that divided the nation for four years still divides American public opinion today. In the South, 38 percent of respondents said they sympathize with the Confederacy, which lost the bloody war. ...
US Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Civil War [VIDEO]
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Faces of the Civil War Go on Display in Library of Congress [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsStriking portraits of the young men who fought and died in the Civil War go on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. this week, to mark today's 150th anniversary of the start of the fighting, NBC reports. ...
150th Anniversary Civil War Battles [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsCHARLESTON, S.C. -- Cannons boomed around Charleston Harbor this morning, The Associated Press Reported, re-creating the bombardment of Fort Sumter that plunged the nation into the Civil War on April 12, 1861, 150 years ago today. The nation's bloodiest war resulted in more than 600,000 deaths. A look at many of the battles that followed those first shots, which led to Union troops surrendering after absorbing 36 hours of Confederate shells: ...
Commemoration, Not Celebration for Civil War Sesquicentennial
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. -- Somber period music, flickering candlelight and booming cannons will usher in the nation's observance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The opening salvo of that war that began in Charleston Harbor will be re-created Tuesday. The war began before dawn on April 12, 1861, with the start of a Confederate bombardment of Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The conflict ended four years later with the surrender of Confederate forces in Virginia on April 9, 1865. Richard Ellis, Getty Images Re-enactors portraying Union soldiers ...
National Parks Face Shutdown on Eve of Civil War Anniversary
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. -- The looming shutdown of the federal government includes the National Parks Service, which could mean events commemorating the start of the Civil War with a Confederate attack on Fort Sumter may have to happen without the fort itself. A shutdown would also affect trips to the nation's capital, where the Smithsonian and the National Zoo would be among the first to close, and could cause spring break campers out West to find Yosemite and other parks closed. Ben Margot, AP If the federal government shuts down, all 394 National Park Service sites ...
Old Times Not Forgotten: Civil War at 150
By not in system - AOL NewsA hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official. Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"? Five historians had made impassioned nominations, and the audience would now decide. Most anywhere else, the choice would be obvious. Who but Abraham Lincoln? But this was a vote in the capital of the rebellion that Lincoln put down, sponsored by a museum dedicated to his adversary. How ...
In Libya, US Fights With Words as Well as Weapons
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- International military forces are using words as well as weapons to try to weaken the grip of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and urge his troops to turn against him. They are dropping leaflets targeting government troops as well as flying a U.S. propaganda plane that broadcasts to forces of the North African nation, U.S. military officials said Monday. The message: Refuse to obey Gadhafi's orders, stop fighting, go home to your families. Although each day the Pentagon reports the number of bombs it has dropped in the week-old Libya intervention, it has said little about the ...
Ben Affleck Urges More Support for Congo [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsActor Ben Affleck appeals to Congress for more funds for the war-torn African nation, criticizing current U.S. policy. ...
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