Fall back, pikemen! Stand by to board!
Submitted by DonL on May 7, 2008 - 10:17pm.
Democratic politics

"The First Gun Fired by Fort Moultrie Against Fort Sumpter.; THE BOMBARDMENT CONTINUED ALL DAY. Spirited Return from Major Anderson's Guns. The Firing from Fort Sumpter Ceased for the Night. Hostilities to Commence Again at Daylight. The Correspondence which Preceded the Bombardment. The Demand for a Surrender and Major Anderson's Refusal. THE RELIEF FLEET OFF THE HARBOR. How the News is Recieved in Washington."
"The ball has opened. War is inaugurated. The batteries of Sullivan's Island, Morris Island, and other points, were opened on Fort Sumpter at 4 o'clock this morning."
-- NY Times, April 13, 1861, Wednesday
Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E7DE1330E134BC4B52DFB266838A679FDE
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Oh, yes. Someone is going there.
Thanks for reading,
Donald C. Lindsay
Obama, 08
Andrew Rice, 08


You know that the firing from Ft. Sumpter on the Union ship was started by cadets (high school age) attending the Citadel in Charleston.
Overexcited and 'drunk' on southern nationalism.... the cadets started the Civil War.
GEORGE SANTAYANA:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.