Fort Sumter

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Abraham Lincoln was elected as the U.S. president in November of Eighteen Sixty. He faced the most serious crisis in American history after he was ceremonially sworn in as president. The Lower South including South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had finally acted on their earlier threats. They declared secession because of the issue of slavery. Since Republican Party opposed slavery, the Lower South was afraid that Abraham Lincoln, as a Republican, would…

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…

Abraham Lincoln becomes the sixteenth President of the United States and is the nation's first Republican President. When the civil war started he was censured for taking permitted measures during the war. After the war people seen that Lincoln's use of power did not constitute abuse and was known as one of the great presidents in the United States. When Lincoln was elected president, seven southern states had secede from the union. When he give his speech on the conciliatory inaugural address,…

Union in 1820, I was put in command of the U.S. army garrison in Charleston, South Carolina. My command of 85 soldiers and I were positioned at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, I moved my force to Fort Sumter fearing the safety of my men. After Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 1861, we only very limited worth of supplies in the fort. What was done previously to…

When the dispute began fort Sumter was unoccupied. But major Robert Anderson soon moved his small force into Sumter from fort Moultrie. The most fierce battle was the battle of Shiloh. The battle was named after a church on the battlefield. In february 1862 union forces led by general grant and they captured fort henry and fort donelson both in Northern Tennessee. The loss of these forts forced Johnston's Confederate troops to retreat South to Corinth Mississippi…

confederate territory. The confederates claimed it was theirs, but the union said it was theirs. President Lincoln told union general Robert Anderson to stay in the fort. Fort Sumter was attacked by confederates, but since the cannons were facing the sea the people in Fort Sumter had a hard time fighting back. The people in the fort lasted for 34 hours before surrendering to the confederates. Second Battle of Bull Run The Second Battle of Bull Run took place in August 1862. On day…

Louisiana secede in January 1861. The war effectively began the moment South Carolina passed the act of secessions. The south that the union remove its forces from government installations in the South. The most visible government installation was fort Sumter in Charleston…

Northerners would get tire of the war and give in to the Confederacy’s demands. Southerners misjudged the Union’s commitment to reunite the nation, and Northerners failed to realize the difficulty of subduing the Confederate army. Southerners attacked Fort Sumter, many northern politicians rallied around Lincoln. Democrat Stephen Douglas, whom Lincoln defeated for the presidency, offered the Republican…

A Disunited Nation Abraham Lincoln is viewed as the greatest president in American history. Lincoln was born poor in Kentucky, but he became a successful lawyer and politician. During his term in the antislavery Republican Party, he experienced heated debates with Stephen Douglas, which brought him to national attention. When he became president, he would lead the nation during one of its most difficult trials, the Civil War. There were many contributing factors which caused the Civil War to…