Remembering the Civil War, a century and a half later Exactly 150 years ago this April 12, a simmering debate over slavery and trade that had grated between North and South for four score and five years exploded into bloodshed. That’s when soldiers from South Carolina, a state that had just voted to withdraw from the union, fired on a band of loyal troops inside Fort Sumter. The next four years of fighting would claim more American lives than all … Read more on The Courier News