Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1961-01-01 / 1. szám
4 FRATERNITY worn at the time, are being sewn in the workshops in Charleston for use during the staging of the “firing”. General Clark will don the striking uniform of the Commandant of the Corps and take an active role in the pageant. The enthusiasm of both the Charleston “city fathers” and a number of state-wide groups such as the State’s Development Board and the Centennial committees has been tremendous. This same enthusiasm for noting the anniversary of the conflict has appeared in the other 33 states which actually participated in the war. In fact, Centennial Commissions are hard at work in 43 states and the National Park Service, which runs 27 battlefields, is busy restoring these historic sites. THE BATTLE'S ON Southern forces at Fort Johnson bombard Fort Sumter in the pre-dawn darkness. Forty-two blazing Confederate cannons touch off the five-year conflict which took almost as many lives in battle as all the other wars fought by the U. S. before and after, combined. Plans are being readied to stage full-scale re-enactment of both the firing on the "Star of the West" (January 9) and the bombardment on Fort Sumter (next April 12). (Photo from The Bettmann Archives.) Special Events Planned Charlestonians are actively drawing up plans for welcoming an anticipated flow of visitors to “the place where it ail started”. Special events are being planned for the city’s Dock Street Theatre (reported to be the oldest in the country); hotels and restaurants are schooling their staffs for the flood of visitors’ questions about the war; and many a Charleston household is busy preparing costumes of the
