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– Excerpted from ‘Civil War Voices from York County’<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe American Civil War, though rooted in decades of dissension and violence over slavery, westward expansion, and states rights, erupted in the dark on April 12, 1861.<\/p>\n

\nAt 4:30 a.m., Secessionist forces in Charleston, S.C., fired artillery at Federal-held Fort Sumter.<\/p>\n


\nA succession of heavy shells arced through the pre-dawn coastal sky, and the lengthy political hatred and fiery partisan rhetoric gave way to weaponry.<\/p>\n

\tThe masonry bastion in Charleston Harbor capitulated several hours later, sending shock waves through both the North and South.<\/p>\n

\nPresident Abraham Lincoln and his controversial anti-slavery Republican Party had captured the White House in 1860, sparking several Southern “Cotton States” to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n

\nIt was the CSA’s newly formed provisional army that lit the fuse early that fateful morning in Charleston.<\/p>\n

\nNo one could have imagined the suffering and pain that was to result.<\/p>\n

\n* * *<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nLong before Fort Sumter fell, the seeds of discord had been sown.<\/p>\n

\nAmong the many points of contention was the Underground Railroad, with several York County and other south-central Pennsylvania residents playing important roles in trafficking escaped slaves to freedom.<\/p>\n

\nThe controversial Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 declared that all runaway slaves must be returned to their owners.<\/p>\n

\nThose who worked in the Underground Railroad now risked fines and imprisonment. For many Northerners, that unpleasant possibility did not outweigh betraying their values and beliefs.<\/p>\n

\nFugitive William Parker, late of an Anne Arundel County, Md., plantation, was in York in the summer of 1839 or 1840.<\/p>\n

\n“Once in York, we thought we would be safe,” he believed, “but our ideas of security were materially lessened when we met a friend during the day, who advised us to proceed further, as we were not out of imminent danger.”<\/p>\n

\nHe moved farther east to Columbia that night.<\/p>\n

\nTwenty years later another fugitive, Osborne Perry Anderson, escaped Federal forces that quelled his leader John Brown’s occupation of Harpers Ferry, Va.<\/p>\n

\n“At night, I set out and reached York,” the freedman wrote, “where a good Samaritan gave me oil, wine and raiment.”<\/p>\n

\nNeither man named former slave and York merchant William C. Goodridge as their “friend” or “good Samaritan.” But scholars believe Goodridge aided both as an agent on the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n

\n– Scott Mingus and James McClure<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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