A printable chronology of important events that took place four months prior to the American Civil War.
December, 1860, was a busy month for Secessionists, with all sorts of gatherings, hand shaking and back-slapping; the elected representatives to the U.S. Congress from the state of South Carolina resign, while U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson (1805 - 1871) gets a sense of what is coming down the pike and removes his troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter.
Read an article about how Victorian fashion saved a life during the Civil War.
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