The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

What Fort Sumter Did for Me

Anonymous. "What Fort Sumter Did for Me." Vanity Fair, May 25, 1861, 241-243.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
journalism
Abstract

A young lady explains the circumstances of her Southern life leading up to and after the attack on Fort Sumter. She becomes engaged to a man shipping off to war.