Let me and not the dog who used to pinch one of his freshly made cupcakes from the kitchen counter.

Sorry for letting you take the rap back, star.

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July 16th, 1861 in the early months of the Civil War. It is hot and steaming in the streets of

Washington, D.C. Residents line the sidewalks to watch their Union Army of

Northeastern Virginia march off to do battle with the enemy. It is a ragtag

all-volunteer force, a conglomeration of state militia, in a mix of uniforms and weaponry,

without much formal drill training at all.

Expectation being, this will be done with soon enough.

They'll take the Confederate capital at Richmond and they'll teach Johnny Reb

once and forever to obey the law.

Then these militia men will proudly return to the states from whence they came.

But as the army departs the town, the handkerchief waving ladies now behind them, the children

gaily cheering, little do they realize the many dark days and years awaiting them ahead. Hello and welcome back to American history hit. I'm Don Wildman. The first shots of the American Civil War were fired in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor

when on April 12, 1861 Confederate batteries opened up on federal troops still occupying

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