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Beginnings and Endings of the Civil War Explored
A retrospective tracing the openings and closings of the Civil War from Fort Sumter to the final acts. It discusses the contested start at Fort Sumter, the early skirmishes in Virginia, the Bull Run defeat, and the prolonged Confederate surrender process, ending with Johnston and Mosby actions and the last gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Fort Sumter
Robert Anderson
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
United States War Department
South Carolina
United States
Charleston Harbor
Fort Moultrie
Anderson
Castle Pinckney
Buchanan
Jeremiah Black
Edwin M. Stanton
Star of the West
Morris’ Island
War Department
Confederate States of America
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Davis
P. T. Beauregard
Beauregard
Edmund Ruffin
Sullivan's Island
Sumter
Albert Bushnell Hart
Fort Johnson
George 8. James
Daniel Hough
Battery of
The
First United States Artillery
Massachusetts
George E. Bailey
Rockleland
Mertenant
Fort Blakeley
Mobile Bay
Alabama
Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Bailey
North Carolina
Joseph J. Johnston
Sherman
Georgia
John 8. Mosby
Winfield Scott Hancock
Wilson
Richmond
Johnston
Taylor
Sam Jones
Chalk Bluff
Ark
Dodge
Jeff Thompson
E. Kirby Smith
Texas
B. BR
Canby
United Daughters of the Confederacy
White Sulphur Springs
Waynesville
N. C
Ciys
Robert Conley
James R. Love
Ll. C. Bartlett
James Arrowood
Captain Contey
Arrowood
Riverview
Asheville
N.C
Captain Conley