If you say “Fort Sumter,” most Americans would recognize the place where their Civil War began in 1861. When that war was over four years later, between 752,000 and 851,000 soldiers were dead (not counting civilians), the equivalent of 2% of the US population on the eve of the war. If not for the Civil War and its role in it, Fort Sumter would be one quaint historical........

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