There is a great deal of speculation as to the intentions of the Administration in regard to reinforcing Fort Sumter ... so long as no attack upon the fort is made, unless at the request of ...
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Ill. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential librarySPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate ...
Until you have received and communicated his response to the President, of course your State will not attack Fort Sumter, and the President will not offer to reinforce it. We most respectfully ...
Hatcher covers the subsequent fighting around the harbor, and Sumter’s role in it, such as the famous assault on Battery Wagner led by the 54th Massachusetts (July 18, 1863), the unsuccessful naval ...
On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...
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