Sunday, April 3, 2011

April 2, 1861

From The Daily Virginian:

"One of the great arguments - indeed the chief cause assigned by those of our Southern fellow-citizens who favor Disunion - is, that we are two distinct people, having different systems of labor, and cannot, therefore, live under one government."

 South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens

(Left) Brigadier  General P.G.T. Beauregard - Commander, CSA, Charleston, SC
(Right) Major Robert Anderson, Commander, Federal forces at Fort Sumter

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