The Awful April Podcast

"Somehow, our men had got the idea that South Carolina was the cause of all our troubles; her people were the first to fire on Fort Sumter, had been in a great hurry to precipitate the country into civil war..."

William Tecumseh Sherman

At 4:30am on April 12, 1861 Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter beginning what would become the deadliest conflict in American History.   How had the country reached that point?

Join host Craig Wall as he examines the origins of the rift that eventually exploded into war and meet the men who stood on the precipice of disaster.

Host Craig Wall tells the stories that have, historically, made April what T.S. Eliot called "the cruelest month."

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