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Hi Turtle!

April 1861

Dear Turtle,

Hello, I am at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. I wish you were here because you could see the devastation of the war that just occurred. You could have also shook Major Robert Anderson's’ hand, and watched the funeral about the one man that died from the cannon explosion and watched his men sail away. I couldn't believe that Lieutenant Farleigh took the first shot at 4:30 that started this whole war that’s about to begin. Then the weird thing that happened was that General Beauregard rowed out and asked if they surrendered. Theres a rumor going around that there was supplies coming to them but they didn't make it in time and they didn't have orders to shoot the cannons till the second day when the men took the war into their own hands and shot all the cannons anyway. Well I hope you can come here soon to see all this.

Sincerely, Taylor