Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-01-01 / 1. szám

FRATERNITY

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Volume XXXIX JANUARY 1981 Number 1

FÍRST SHOTS OF CIVIL WAR CENTURY AGO

CANNON ATTACK ON NORTH'S SUPPLY SHIP RE-ENACTED IN CHARLESTON, S. C., PAGEANT

The boom of cannons off the Battery in Charleston, S. C., Harbor

January 9th — the same date as a century ago — marked the first

in a series of Centennial re-enactments commemorating the five-year Civil War in which almost as many Americans lives were lost than in all the wars this nation has fought before or since, combined.

To date, almost 100 different ceremonies, observances and re-enactments are planned at historic sites in the East and South. They will range in scope from programs requiring only a handful of participants to those — such as the one planned in Charleston — which will utilize thousands in extensively planned pageants.

A special message by President Eisenhower proclaiming the start of the Centennial on January 8th initiated a five-year period of activity that will take note of the dramatic battles at which great sacrifices were made by Americans for their ideals. The President (Eisenhower) had suggested that the day be set aside for prayer and acknowledgment of these sacrifices, with the hope that all Americans will review the bitter lessons that can be learned from this country’s most destructive conflict.

Shots Fired Before Sumter

The re-enactment in Charleston will officially recognize the firing on the Federal merchant vessel “Star of the West” as the first shots to be fired in anger between the South and the North. The cannon balls sent whizzing over the bay a century ago were bravely fired by a corps of cadets from The Citadel, the military college in Charleston.

The “Star of the West”, sent by President Buchanan to re-provision the besieged Federal forces on Fort Sumter, penetrated the harbor’s “ship channel” until it reached a point about three-quarters of a mile from the city’s battery wall.