Battle of Fort Sumter

stepping into the white house, Lincoln was faced with a disunion crisis. The confederacy had claimed Fort Sumter, and Lincoln made the call for General in Chief Winfield Scott to prepare to hold or retake the Fort during or after his inauguration. In his inaugural address, Lincoln not only upheld the union’s indestructibility and appealed for sectional harmony, but also stated the Sumter Policy. The Sumter Policy stated, “The power confided in me, will be used to hold, occupy, and posses the…

Confederate states. On April 12th, 1861, the Confederate states ultimately began the Civil War when they fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. This battle began when United States Major Robert Anderson and his eighty-five men made the move from Fort…

The cause of The Civil War can be seen as a very controversial topic. I would say the battle of Fort Sumter is the first official battle of The Civil War as long as you're going by the true definition of battle, ‘a sustained fight between large, organized armed forces’. Otherwise the undeclared guerrilla war caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act could be the first ‘battle’. Although, there were many disputes and struggles that ultimately led up to the outbreak of a war fought for slavery, states…

Confederate states of America. Since then the battles between the two would begin. The battle of Gettysburg, the attack of Fort Sumter, and the battle of Shiloh. These events were major important for the Civil war timeline. This war will not only be remembered for all the lives…

War. As the title of this paper suggests, this paper is about the causes, battles, and the aftermath of the Civil War. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the different reasons that Northerners and Southerners fought and describe the attack on Fort Sumter. The next three sections of this paper are concerned with three major battles of the Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, and the Battle of Gettysburg. Finally, the last section of this paper is dedicated…

Michigan in the Civil War- The Civil War started when the confederate army attacked Fort Sumter in April 1861 causing the fort to surrender to the confederates. Michigan began to rally the troops a week after the fall of fort Sumter, one meeting spot was Ann Arbor. The first Michigan was created and it generated more excitement than any other regiment. The regiment was trained in Fort Wayne and they went to war on May 11, 1861. As the Michigan regiments marched toward the battlefront they were…

soldiers fought solely to uphold the Constitution and preserve the nation (Roark et al). As the world’s first modern war, it mobilized the entire populations of the North and the South, harnessed the productive capacities of both economies, and produced battles that fielded 200,000 soldiers and created casualties in the tens of thousands (Roark et al). During this time, it had a major impact on slavery. Similar to most other wars, it also impacted approximately 600,000 lives, jobs, and homes. It…

From 1860 to 1865 times were not so good as they are today. There were several events on that day in age. Some for the good, others for the bad. All in all every event that occurred at this time took effect on our nation and still takes effect on us till this day. Things like the decrease on antagonism and the Emancipation Proclamation helped mankind. After 2016 years we have slowly become one nation. One event was the First Inaugural Address in which Abraham Lincoln passed on Monday, March 4,…

outcome of the Civil War. However, the three aspects that had the greatest impact on the Civil War are the battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln, and the meeting at the Appomattox Courthouse. These three aspects were crucial to the…

an issue for the south because he had wanted slavery gone. This had seemed like a easy battle for the North because they had more manufacturing in guns and just plainly had more population of the…