Archive for 'Fort Sumter' Category
1861 by Walt Whitman
Heard your determin’d voice, launch’d forth again and again; Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp’d cannon, I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
End of the Civil War
With these words of President Johnson, the Civil War was now officially decreed to be over. Reconstruction was underway as the nation worked to rebuild all that had been destroyed in the Civil War.



