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Mileage. In Sumter, S.C., Lieuts. George C. and Van Cleve Warren, brothers, were married to Martha Miles and Martha Miles...
Citadel men fired both the first and last shots in the War Between the States. On January 9, 1861, Citadel cadets trained a battery of 24-pounders in Charleston harbor upon the federal ship Star of the West, which was steaming to the relief of Fort Sumter. This was the war's first hostility, though the struggle is usually dated from April 12, 1861, when Sumter itself was attacked. Each spring the best-drilled Citadel cadet is awarded tempo rary possession of a medal made from a piece of wood from the Star of the West...
...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
WARREN T. KING Executive Secretary Sumter Chamber of Commerce Sumter...
...stayed too long in Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16/ 96; Wofford College (Spartanburg), B.A. '16 . . . Abroad since...