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HISTORIC PHOTO: THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS Union Square, New York City On April 20, 1861, an estimated 100,000 people hosted what the New York Times called a “mass meeting” in New York City’s Union Square to “uphold the authority of the Government” after the attack on Fort Sumter that started the American Civil War. At the time, this was the largest public gathering ever orchestrated in the U.S. photo: George Eastman House
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