CIVIL  WAR

Quote for the Day - April 12,  2011


"[The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was the not salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union."


Woodrow Wilson [1856-1924] in a Memorial Day address in 1915. The first shot of the United States Civil War happened - 150 years ago - today, April 12, 1861 in Fort Sumter, South Carolina and the last shot took place in June 1865.