Battle of Fort Sumter

The Battle of Gettysburg had a huge impact on the Civil War as it weakened the Confederacy and helped lead to the end of the war. One of the most well-known battles fought during the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, took place on July 1to 3, 1863. The battle happened outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided that the South needed to invade the North, hoping that some countries over-seas would acknowledge the South as…

The North and South have always followed different paths and by the mid 1800’s the differences were even more pronounced. The North was becoming more industrial, dedicated to immigration, free labor and supported a federal government. Slavery was not common in the North and it was even banned in some states. The South’s agricultural economy was founded on slavery and cotton and they supported a government that allowed states to make their own rules. Southerners viewed the North and their views…

to see the sites of the battles and learn in a different way for once. The civil war bang bang trip will teach students to see things as they are, and keep in mind what hardships we must go through to get where we want. A student can learn these things by visiting civil war sites rich with history. We will go in chronological order, our first destination is Fort Sumer, South Carolina.(Frank E. "Fort Sumter." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.) It was here that a major battle took place,…

Texas were formed in the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis as president, proclaiming their secession from the Union, Lincoln declared illegal act in his inaugural address. The first act of war was to assault the Confederate garrison of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. The…

The American Civil War The American Civil war was one of the bloodiest wars in American History, but one of the craziest things about this war was that it was a war between our own country. There are many reasons and causes that led up to the event known as the Civil War, some of them being that the north wanted to stop the act called slavery, which is when whites treat blacks terrible and make them follow commands and especially make them do hard work, if the order is not followers, they could…

to get out of going to war. So he goes to the local witch where she brings one of her scarecrows to life. She also gives the scarecrow a feather that disguises him as the young man. The scarecrow signs up and becomes a captain. He fights in many battles including Fredericksburg, Antietam, Gettysburg. The scarecrow meets several people who actually make him realize how important his job is. He finally dies at lookout mountain after saving a girl. The game is a third-person action and adventure.…

president, became president, the South left the US and became the Confederacy. On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter. This attack sparked Grant to rejoin the army. Grant’s volunteers took the town of Paducah, Kentucky when Kentucky went into chaos. Grant's victories and troops put pressure on Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. After the assault of Fort Donelson, Grant earned the title Major General of the Volunteers. On April 1862, Grant moved his troops in Tennessee.…

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina when the Confederate troops attacked Union soldiers at Fort Sumter. The war lasted until April 9, 1865. With the war came hard times on the home front. Women played an important role both on the battlefield and the home front. They cooked, sewed, made uniforms, blankets, and sandbags, wrote letters to soldiers, and served as nurses. I would like you to tell you about a very famous women who served as a nurse on the union…

Music can have severe implications on life, especially during times of war, and the Civil War era is no exception. Anterior to Fort Sumter in South Carolina, enslaved African Americans were singing songs in the fields about freedom and living without the bonds of slavery. Abolitionists and slavery supporters alike produced and sang songs to bring indecisive members of the public to their side. Indeed, there were many quabbles over slavery, and ever since the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787,…

African American Soldiers in the Civil War Believe it or not African Americans played a huge role in the Civil War and also affected the outcome of it. The time period of the Civil War was from 1861 to 1865, and it was not favorable for African Americans because many white people usually despised them and African Americans in the South were kept as slaves. Additionally, they sought to end this treatment by joining the Union Army to stop the use of slavery. In saying that the African American…