Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — April a Great Month for Battles. [ARTICLE]

April a Great Month for Battles.

April has been called the war month. On the 12th of April, 1861, Fort Sumpter was fired upon and the civil war begun. On the 6th and 7th of the month is 1862 the battle of Shiloh was fought. On the day following, Island No. 10 was taken. On the Ist of April, 1865, the battle of Five Forks was fought. On the 3d Richmond was evacuated. And along somewhere towards the far end of April, 1898, the “Yankee hogs,” rooted up the last vestige of Spanish rule and ruin in Cuba.