Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

As soon as the Civil War broke out and Lincoln called for volunteers in late April 1861, Uriah Parmelee dropped out of his Junior year at Yale and he joined the first regiment he could get into.

内战爆发时,林肯在1861年四月末召集志愿兵,大三的乌利亚从耶鲁辍学,好不容易入了伍

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

On April twenty-fifth, eighteen ninety-eight, the United States declared war on Spain.

VOA: special.2010.07.15