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Albert Sidney Johnston
... winter, and Johnston decided to occupy Fort Bridger, northeast of Salt Lake City ... When the men arrived at the fort, however, it was ruble, dest

Alexander Stephens
... unhappy with the Confederate loss at Fort Donelson. He returned to his Georgia ... been caught and moved to Camp Sumter, the Confederate Prison in

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
... a week after the attack on Fort Sumter, a troop train being transferred from ...

Battle of New Orleans
... the Mississippi and New Orleans at Fort Jackson (west bank) and Fort St. Philip (east bank). Jefferson Davis ... Semmes CS did. Semmes stated that

Braxton Bragg
... G. T. Beauregard drew duty at Fort Sumter while Bragg drew duty securing Fort Pickens in the harbor at Pensacola, ... Confederacy. Beauregard cut

Confederate Order of Secession
... would take the federal reinforcement of Fort Sumter and the Confederate response before the ...

Convention of Seceding States
... let them know the situation at Fort Sumter was in hand and he did ... James Buchanan tried to reinforce the fort again. Reassured about Sumter, th

David Farragut
... attempt to relieve the garrison at Fort Sumter, he seized New Orleans, Louisiana, the ...

Don Carlos Buell
... telegraph wires. "You may occupy any fort within Charleston Harbor." Anderson had wired Washington that at Fort Moultrie his position was threaten

Edmund Ruffin
... have fired the first shot at Fort Sumter, although this is questioned. From the ... at Cummings Point opened fire on Fort Sumter in its turn, afte

Election of 1864
... a reference to the battle of Fort Sumter and not the failed Democratic Convention ...

First Manassas - First Bull Run
... fords. Fresh from the "victory" at Fort Sumter, Beauregard wanted to concentrate more soldiers ...

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Shortly after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Confederates built two forts just south ... the Illinois border. Further south, Fort Henry guarded the Ten

Fort Sumter
... date:November 8, year:1860, the commander of Fort Moultrie, Lt. Col. J. C. Gardiner was recommending garrisoning troops at Sumter and Castle Pinck

Important Battles of the Civil War
... preparing for the Spring campaigns. 8. Fort Sumter mdy:April 12, 1861 to mdy:April 13, ... the surrender of the bastion of Fort Sumter in Charlest

James Archer
... April 14, 1861, the day after Fort Sumter). That October, he assumed command (as ... July 5, 1863, James Archer entered Fort Delaware, on an islan

James Buchanan
... for the U. S. troops in Fort Sumter. He had to threaten John B. ... before ordering an attack on either Fort Pickens or Fort Sumter. On March 4, 1

John Floyd
... O. C. Ord to advance from Fort Monroe with a company of infantry ... uprising. As he was leaving the fort, Ord indicated it would take two ... and

Operations in Western Virginia
... the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter the Union Army knew the mountainous ...

P. G. T. Beauregard
... the Civil War who fired on Fort Sumter (Charleston Harbor), won the battle of ... whom Beauregard would later meet at site:Fort Sumter, taught the

Salmon P. Chase
... to friends. When the question of Fort Sumter was raised on March 15, both ... further, recommending the resupply of the fort. At the end of March

Siege of Charleston
... Longest siege of The Civil War Fort Sumter, the outpost in Charleston Harbor where ... Two years after the bombardment of Fort Sumter Admiral Davi

Star of the West
... under Maj. Robert Anderson moving from Fort Moultrie, on the shore of Charleston Bay to Fort Sumter, built on a rock shoal in ... to make the appr

The Civil War
... P. G. T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, is the accepted start of the ... T. Beauregard, the "Hero of Ft. Sumter" to direct the main Confederate

The Great Locomotive Chase
... first anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter. At Marietta ( History ...

Ulysses S. Grant
... for volunteers following the attack on Fort Sumter in year:1861 drew 38-year-old "Sam" Grant ... Floyd and Simon Bolivar Buckner at Fort Donelson|

USS New Ironsides
... in 1863 with an attack on Fort Sumter. The New Ironsides place in history ...

Virginia Secession Convention
... end after the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter. Virginia was considered to be a ... to have offered to withdraw from Sumter if the Virginia Seces

William 'Bull' Nelson
... aid Ulysses S. Grant, then at Fort Donelson|Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Bull Nelson moved down the ... out that Grant had taken the fort earlier

Winfield Scott
... called to lead an attack on Fort George. Crossing the Niagara River, Scott captured the fort (it had been evacuated) before being ... Washington,