Battle of Fort Sumter

parties suspended some civil liberties, printed mountains of paper currency and resorted to recruitment. The priority of Lincoln was to keep the US as a single country. After the initial losses of the first battles had to recognize that the development of the war only could change making war a battle against slavery and thus may be able to obtain support for the Union both in the interior as in the exterior. Consequently, in the 1863 second year of the war, issued a proclamation of emancipation,…

The first major battle was the First Battle of Bull Run which snapped the Union into reality that this war might last more than just a couple of months and gave the Confederates a sense that they might actually win this war. Before this war General McDowell didn’t think the army was ready and that was proven during this battle. The objective of the battle was to capture the town of Manassas, which was an important rail road junction south…

The life of Jefferson Davis, is an iconic American story, about military service, government leadership, and the establishment of the Confederate States of America. However, prior to the civil war, Jefferson Davis was a war hero that served a prestigious political career. If the South never succeeded from the Union, history would have remembered Jefferson Davis as a person that was a great political administer, and decisive war hero who proudly served the American Government. However, after…

Abraham Lincoln is the sixteenth president of the United States of America. He is also known for many things but most famous for the freeing of slaves in the South (The Confederate States of America). Before Inauguration: Abraham was a very smart man and with a high sense of the world, so Abraham took advantage of the rising tensions of slavery by saying “He would free the slaves “. Doing this made very popular and decided to run as senator for Illinois. He ran against Douglas (none of my…

believe President Lincoln has sent his militia to South Carolina and deliberately attacked Fort Sumter. Recently, we were in a tranquility with the North and avoided war as much as the other side had. Upon being attacked it was clear to see the North no longer saw us as the neutral opponent and our states decided secession was the only way to preserve our ways of life. We may have won the battle of Fort Sumter today, but we will be forced to fight back and regain entitlement to be in the Union…

When I started my search I actually started my paper I first decide that I would do Fort Hall but I wasn’t having much luck finding anything on that so I decided to change up my subject. I thought up my new subject I decided to do my paper on Abraham Lincoln’s presidency because I thought that I would find a lot more with that topic so I switched up and I went down to the library to find a book that I could borrow to help me with my research and sure enough as soon as I started looking I found a…

The Civil War was changed America History. On July 1, 1863 the Union and the Confederate had a war on Gettysburg. The war end on July 3, 1863. The battle at Gettysburg, PA is also called “the bloodiest war of the Civil War ___________________________________ As y'all people know we at war since April 12, 1861. The first battle was at Fort Sumter, SC on April 12, 1861. The amount of kills were pitty. Now we have the Gettysburg war that ended yesterday. They were 7,863 deaths and 51,000…

Nebraska to decide if they wanted slaves or not. Lincoln’s election was undoubtedly the main cause of the war, because the South felt like their rights and livelihood were going to get taken away from them. As a result, seven states seceded. The Battle of Fort Sumter ensued soon after four more state joined, forming the Confederate States of America. The war ended in 1865 and slavery was finally abolished. But what was the price? The death toll skyrocketed. The war itself was the most costly…

first battle of the Civil War. South Carolina has many other interesting facts. Import-ance The first records of South Carolina were recorded in the early 1500’s when the Spanish explored the coast. Three years after the Spanish explored the French came rolling through. In 1526 Spanish settlers settled close to what is now the peak of the Peedee River at Winyah Bay. Later in 1562 French settlers came and established Charlesfort. In 1566 the Spanish came and built some coastal forts…

In the confederacy, Slaves were used to build forts, haul materiel, tend the horses and perform chores for the armies plus provided support on the home front by growing food. Douglas states “slavery was the stomach of this rebellion”. Lincoln started to realize the importance of the confederacy dependency…