Sumter
Americannoun
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“The Marble Faun” was published in 1860, a year before Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, and seven years after the author’s college friend, President Franklin Pierce, appointed him U.S. consul in Liverpool, England.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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
“Our state needs leaders who will fight for equity, opportunity, and dignity for all, not those who rely on empty gestures to mask the absence of meaningful policy and progress,” Sumter said.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 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
“The Confederates have fired on Fort Sumter, Mr. Creighton. Early Friday morning. I waited till the papers came; they’re full of it.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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