Fort Sumter

Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia decided to leave the Union. The South claimed all of the Forts in the South and trying not to be hostile I only ordered a restock of Fort Sumter. The Southern States viewed this as an act of war and the Civil War began. Within two days of the attack on Fort Sumter, an army of 75,000 men had formed. I always knew that slavery was a moral wrong but I always knew the Constitution allowed it. In 1862 I…

battle of Manassas, however, became known as the Battle of the Bull Run due to meander stream where the battle took placed named Bull Run. It is important to point out that the battle was in repercussion from the attack of the Confederates Armies at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861 near Charlestown South Carolina, “this is known as the beginning of the Civil War.” As a result, then-President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to support the fight against the rebellion of the Confederate…

The war began on April 12, 1861 when the Confederates bombarded Union Soldiers at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The civil war was fought in thousands of different places, from southern Pennsylvania to Texas and from New Mexico to the Florida cost. Most of the fighting took place in the states of Virginia and Tennessee. The civil war ended on May 9th, 1865. The first battle was the battle of Fort Sumter and the last battle was the battle of Palmito Ranch. The presidents during this time where…

American Civil war Inquiry question: was Slavery the main cause of the American Civil war? In this essay I am going to talk to you about what happened in the American civil war and why. The American civil war started on 12 April 1861 and finished on 9 May 1865. The argument over whether slavery was the main cause of the civil war is one of the most controversial topics in American History. What people believe is that the cause of the civil war was a dispute about the morality of slavery that…

April 12,1862 wasn’t just an ordinary day, it was the first battle of Fort Sumter, officially known as the start of the war named as the “American Civil War”. This was indeed, a very bloody war, with many different aspects - such as what caused it, What were the main events and what was the outcome? What Caused The Civil War? A big, big reason why this war took place was the horrifying reality of “Slavery”. Abolitionists ( people who wanted to abolish slavery), especially in the North (whom…

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: The causes of the Civil War The civil war lasted for a period of 4 years from the year 1861 to 1865. The war led to more than six hundred thousand casualties. The traces for the civil war are mainly from the tension that formed early in the history of the United States. The vast size of the United States resulted in divergent lifestyles and cultures in the South and North which were dictated by climatic and geographic differences producing raw materials which led…

came and built some coastal forts to discourage the French from…

It has been discussed fervently in many occasions whether slavery was the principal cause of the American civil war, also known as the Secession war. A bloody rift that took place from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America and that divided the nation in two opposite parts each one defending an ideology clearly opposed to the other’s, affecting at the same time the economic, political and social structures of the nation. Well, was the question of slavery at the heart of that ideological…

The Civil War does not conform to the just war theory cannot be considered a just war. The first reason why the civil war was an unjust was is that civilians are being attacked. “ As the military conflict escalated into a total war in which traditional separation of civilians and military disappeared, some civilians hid in the cellars when their communities became battle ground” ( Jean beaked). That’s when the civil war became a total war civilian communities were being attacked. The civilians…

from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln. In the 1860’s the economy was failing, Abraham Lincoln was voted president, and he is getting rid of slavery. The shots fired at fort Sumter made the war reality. Neither the north nor south was really prepared. Each side had some advantages. Robert E.Lee, a gradute or the U.S military acadamy at west point, lee had served in the mexican war.Ulysses S.Grant Bold and…