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This Week Then: Washington Territory and the Civil War
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Marching Forth On April 12, 1861, Washington Territory’s former governor, Isaac Stevens, returned to the Pacific Northwest to campaign for reelection to a third term as the territory’s delegate to the U. S. Congress. On that same day, the Civil War began with the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. News of that event didn’t arrive here until more…

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