Sumter
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“English Liberator” reads like a period war novel, an enjoyable ride for the history buff looking for unheralded adventure stories bridging the gap between Waterloo and Fort Sumter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Since Smuss spoke German, he was taken outside to work in a factory repairing and repainting helmets, he recounted in a video recorded for the Sumter Museum in the US in 2022.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, Isaac Mayer Wise, an early leader of Reform Judaism, published an editorial titled “Silence, Our Policy.”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
Before the first shots of the Civil War were ever fired at Fort Sumter, a poem titled “The Southland Fears no Foeman” was published in Richmond’s “Southern Literary Messenger.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
Leo wondered what she’d seen at Fort Sumter that could have shaken her up so badly.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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