The Civil War in characters

The Washington Post is tweeting the Civil War.

The tweets describe the events that lead up to the Civil War in the words of the people who lived them. Tweets appear on the day events happened 150 years ago and come from official military records, congressional inquiries,  state archives, memoirs, letters and newspapers.

Below is an example of a tweet.

CivilWarwp Atty Gen Edwd Bates: "Pres Lincoln's 1st Cabinet Council--intended, I suppose 2 b formal & introductory only--in fact, uninteresting." about 16 hours ago via HootSuite 

To learn more, click on the above tweet.