- Author
- Blaker, Philip Charles.
- Date of Publication
- 1960.
Sumter was bombarded and
the Civil War was on.
Lincoln acted immediately, and issued a proclamation calling for
75,000 volunteers. 79 Lancaster was in tumult, and on 16 April 1861 the
"Fencibles" of Lancaster offered their services to help fill the sixteen regi-
ments required of Pennsylvania. 20 The