I am sure we have all heard that there were no Union deaths when the Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter in April of 1861. However-Rick Hatcher historian-claims that "...two Union soldiers died of wounds suffered when a salute was fired during the surrender ceremony". (I thought a salute was fired into the air; were the Union soldiers flying overhead at the time?). I don't know who Rick Hatcher is or what he has written; I will need to do some research. (Source: "Civil War remembrance begins with a cannonade" by The AP. In The Record on 4/12/11).
Update: Rick Hatcher is the National Park Service Historian for Fort Sumter re Google search.
