Amazon.com description: Product Description: As the United States observes the 150th anniversary of its Civil War, we mark the beginning of this bitter four-year-long war which began at Fort Sumter. The long years of the Civil War would see unprecedented tragedy, heroism and glory on both sides of the confl ict. At its end, the war would be remembered as one that defi ned a nation and one that is still the most fatal and one of the most costly ever in America's history. BrownTrout Publishers, in association with documentary fi lmmaker Ken Burns, is honored to bring you the fi rst in our series of wall calendars published in sesquicentennial remembrance of the Civil War. This 2012 square wall calendar explores in images and words, the events of 1862. Each month of this 2012 calendar focuses on the particulars of was happening in the same month 150 years ago, the chronology and facets of the war between the United and Confederate States of America.