[Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Wed Oct 1 18:53:03 EDT 2008


On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:26 PM, bob ford wrote:

> Can't let this softball go, James can give better explain; But, we  
> did not fire upon New York because they didn't give us extra money.   
> Lincoln's army fired upon South Carolina, for that reason.  And so  
> it began...bobf

So Wikipedia has it wrong? Found this there at the beginning of the  
third graph:

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked  
a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(American)



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