Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Read served in the United States Navy through the whole Civil War. He was on the iron clad Keokuk when it was riddled and sunk by the fire of Fort Sumter in 1863. After taking part in several other engagements be was made a prisoner of war and confined for eight months in a prison stockade. Of the hundred and eleven men captured with him, but thirty survived the imprisonment...