Battle of Fort Sumter
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, beginnin
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, a portrait by Currier and Ives
Maj. Robert Anderson
Fort Sumter before the battle
Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865, unrecognized as a sovereign nation by either
Battle of Fort Sumter
…both North and South for further military action. Lincoln's immediate call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion resulted in an additional four Southern states also declaring their secession and joining the Confederacy. The battle is usually recognized as the first of the American Civil War. On December 20…
The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama
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Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee secessionist and Confederate Representative in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma