Excerpt from The Story of the Regiment
The roar of Sumter's guns, as it rolled northward along the Atlantic coast, and westward across the prairies, awakened the nation from its peaceful dream of half a century, to the startling reality of armed and defiant Rebellion.
A dissolution of the Federal Union, at first darkly hinted, and afterward openly avowed, toward the close of the year 1860 became a fixed purpose with leading Southern statesmen, - a purpose to which they gave masterly energies, entailing upon the country four years of calamitous war.
Following close upon the surrender of Fort Sumter, came the call from Washington, not less startling than the report of the first cannon shot, for volunteers to defend the rightful authority of the Government. Every Northern State sent back the same enthusiastic response.
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