 Complete the following phrase:  The news of the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, reached Topsfield about five oclock that afternoon. Topsfield sent 113 soldiers to the American Civil War and appropriated funds for recruiting and supporting them. Dow adds, The ladies of Topsfield worked heartily in the cause of the soldiers during the war, and forwarded to the army, money, clothing and hospital stores. The Topsfield soldiers  many of whom may never before have travelled with a steam horse or left town at all  fought and died in places far from home: Bull Run, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and 