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Fort Sumter – The Civil War Begins
April 12 to 14, 1861 Confederate Edmund Ruffin fires the first shot of the Civil War at 4:30 in the morning of April 12, when he fires a single mortar upon Union held Fort Sumter in the harbor of...
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Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls was a slave born on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. His mother was a house slave, his father an unknown white man. When Robert was only 12-years-old, he began working in the...
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1861 by Walt Whitman
1861 – Secession Completes and the Bloodshed Begins The poem 1861 by Walt Whitman. South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. In 1861, the Confederate States of America would gain its...
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Civil War 1861 Timeline
What Happened In The Civil War During 1861? The Civil War began in 1861 when the Rebels fired upon Fort Sumter. Some other major events of 1861 are: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president...
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Colonel Robert E. Lee Resigns
Will Robert E. Lee Be Loyal To The United States Or To Virginia? Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at Stratford in Westmoreland County, Virginia and he spent his youth and adulthood in...
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Spies – Their Secret War To Save A Nation
Lincoln’s Spies – Their Secret War To Save The Union By Douglas Waller Lincoln’s Spies – Their Secret War To Save A Nation Do you have some favorite Civil War books, books you have read and reread? I...
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