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Clark County history: Clark County and the Civil War

Summary by The Columbian
When the Civil War began, the remote Pacific Northwest lacked Eastern telegraph and railroad connections, cutting it off from news. Newspapers took six weeks to arrive by ship. The news of South Carolina’s December 1860 succession, the Confederacy’s February 1861 formation and the April 12, 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, S.C. came north from California by telegraph. (Washington Territory got its first telegraph connection to the east in October 186…

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The Columbian broke the news in Vancouver, United States on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
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