Fort Sumter and American division

CHARLESTON, S.C. – On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to contemporary political warriors.It is Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began and where, 164 years ago, a garrison of American troops struggled to hold out in the face of th...

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