This past weekend marked the 163rd anniversary of the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, which is a historical touchstone for many of our readers.
So I was glad to see historian Heather Cox Richardson address that fateful day in her astute "Letters from an American."
The Georgia man who claimed to have loaded the "Shot Heard Round the World" ended the war as a captive of Stoneman's Raid. The Stoneman Gazette had that story: "You are the cause of all this trouble?"
