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As I write in "Dangerous Learning", the South sealed the nation’s fate on the march to Civil War not when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter but in the 1830s when the South would no longer tolerate open debate and discussion around slavery.

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.”

Predictably, Bezos' defense failed more miserably than the Union Army at Fort Sumter in 1861.

Former Crespi quarterback Randy Redell is a captain in the Air Force and he takes me up in his F-16 fighter jet in Sumter, S.C.

The order to blockade Southern ports to prevent the Confederacy from shipping economically vital cotton or importing critical needs was signed April 19, 1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina.