Confederate states

Plan 's Effect on The Civil War From 1861-1865 the Civil War was fought to determine the survival of the independent Confederacy. In January 1861, seven Southern slave states seceded from the United States of America to create the Confederate States of America ("Civil War Academy American Civil War"). The twenty three states that remained loyal were called the Union. War was declared on April 12, 1861 between the North and South due to the controversial issue of slavery and its extension in Western

occupied the unfinished fort in December 1860 following South Carolina’s secession from the Union, initiating a standoff with the state militia forces. When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard shelled Fort Sumter in April of 1861. After a 34 hour exchange, Anderson and his soldiers surrendered the fort. Confederate troops then would come to occupy fort Sumter for almost four years, before abandoning the fort prior to William Truman’s capture

There was, however, one thing (or person) that the Union wasn’t expecting. The Confederates were pushed back to Henry Hill, where Brigadier General Thomas Jackson and his Virginia brigade had just arrived to reinforce them. Jackson set up his artillery on the crest of the hill. He did not budge as the fighting went on. In order to rally his troops, General Bernard Bee told his troops “Look, there is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall!” (ushistory.org n.d.) From that point forward

MISSION COMMAND ANALYSIS: COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF LITTLE ROUND TOP In late June 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia passed through western Maryland and invaded Pennsylvania. General Lee believed that by invading the North, he could draw the Union Army of the Potomac away from their defenses and force them to come after him. He also assumed the people of the North would be so demoralized if the Union were to lose another major battle, especially

by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named ten specific states where it would apply. Lincoln issued the Executive Order by his authority as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution

was elected, multiple states seceded from the Union. South Carolina secedes, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas (History 1). South Carolina seceded primarily because of the election of Abraham Lincoln by the Black Republican Party which had campaigned on the elimination of slavery within the United States. This applied to both the states where slavery already had existed and, any future states entering the Union. The right of the states to determine their own

Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History begins by providing the account of the Nullification Crisis that took place in 1832. The crisis began as a dispute between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over a series of national tariffs that many of the southerners viewed as excessive. (6) The leader of the nullification movement in Mississippi was John Anthony Quitman. Quitman died in 1859 and the Mississippi finally left the Union in 1861. (8) As a result of the Nullification

Golden Circle (KGC) originally began in the arrangements of the Southern Rights Clubs in the mid-1830s. KGC was a secret society in the United States with the original objective to annex a “golden circle” of territories in Mexico, northern South America, Central America, and Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean for enclosure in the United States as slave states. After branching off from the Southern Rights Clubs, KGC reorganized in Lexington, Kentucky, by five men, on July 4, 1854. Evidence advocates

The Civil War The Civil War started on April 12, 1861. It was a military conflict between the United States of America, which was known as the union and the Confederate States of America know as the Confederacy. It began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and lasted until May 26, 1865, when the last Confederate army surrendered. The war took more than 600,000 lives, destroyed five billion dollars worth of property and

idea to enslave innocent people. In the mid-nineteenth century, the decades of tension between the North and the South of the United States of America, was exploding into the American Civil War. Although the economy was successful due to farming and manufacturing, the North and the South were feuding over westward expansion, slavery, and federal rights versus states rights. “I have fought against the people of the North because I believe they were seeking it’s dearest rights. But never have I cherished