{"id":406,"date":"2019-05-01T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-06-05T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:11:20","slug":"fort-sumter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/fort-sumter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Sumter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On April 12, 1862, at 4:30 a.m., while stars littered the sky and most of the divided nation lie sleeping\u2014a single shell soared high above Charles Harbor and exploded mid-air. The silent waters surrounding Fort Sumter burst to life, and with that single shot the Civil War began.  At 2:30 p.m., April 13th<\/sup>, after raining 4000 shells on the fort, Major Robert Anderson surrendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, boats bombard the little island with tourists, carrying them from Patriots Point to Fort Sumter on daily tours. I first toured Fort Sumter in my early years. To be honest, I don\u2019t remember much about our family visit to the fort. I do remember the gift shop, or rather the fact that my parents purchased me a few goodies at the gift shop; toy money \u2013\u2013 I can still smell the bills when I imagine them \u2013\u2013 and a small spiral back book consisting of many colorful pictures of the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother took a picture of me on that trip, and that picture holds firm in my memory to this day. In this unforgettable capture, I am sitting on the tour boat, my mouth wide open, tears running down my face. I had been chewing gum and while there on the boat, lost one of my front bottom teeth. Oh, the agony! Oh, the pain! What a memory! One important point to make about this picture is that my mother had this memory made into a slide so it could be cast upon the wall. Lord only knows how many friends, family, and strangers she showed that picture. They laughed, I cried.
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For more information about Fort Sumter, check out this page by the National Park Service<\/a>, or this page by the History Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On April 12, 1862, at 4:30 a.m., while stars littered the sky and most of the divided nation lie sleeping\u2014a single shell soared high above Charles Harbor and exploded mid-air. The silent waters surrounding Fort Sumter burst to life, and with that single shot the Civil War began.  At 2:30 p.m., April 13th, after raining … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiacameron.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}