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On the twelfth of April, |
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Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor |
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thus beginning the bloodiest conflict in American History -- |
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620,000 casulties -- more than all other American wars combined 62 |
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The Civil War remains this nation's single most defining experience |
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ultimately giving new meaning to the word "Freedom" |
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Walt Whitman, a young newspaperman |
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destined to become America's greatest poet wrote: |
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"Future years will never know the seething hell “ |
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and the black infernal background of this war -- |
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and it is best they should not-- |
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the real war will never get in the books." |
