Christmas Fight That Opened the Civil War
A 1860 Christmas night move by Maj. Robert Anderson ferried troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Officials urged restraint, but orders allowed resistance, and by April 1861 the shells began. The event set the stage for the Civil War’s first battle and two nations’ long struggle.
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Elmo Scott
Robert Anderson
United
West Point
Ilinois
Florida
Winfield Scott
el Molino del Rey
United States
Charleston Harbor
South Carolina
Anderson
Fort Moultrie
Fort Sumter
Moultrie
Sumter
Castle Pinckney
Charleston
United States Army
President Buchanan
John B. Floyd
Sullivan's Island
North
South
P. T. Beauregard
Major Anderson
Fort. Sumter
Roosevelt budget drama and Buchanan role in Congress
Washington notes describe Representative James P. Buchanan as key in the budget-balancing push, shaping how the Roosevelt administration aims to sell fiscal restraint. The piece discusses labor leader William Lewis, the AFL, and the push toward industrial unions amid NRA pressures, plus Jim Farley’s warnings to lawmakers ahead of elections.
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Washington
James P. Buchanan
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Buchanan
Rooosevelt
Texas
House
Capitol
Appropriations Committee
Carter Glass
Virginia
National Credit
Glass
John L. Lewis
United Mineworkers of America
William Green
Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Oll
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
NRA
Farley
Capitol Hill
White House
Glass-Adams
Adams
WNU Service
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Ag Ae
Western Newspaper Union
Harbor
Ay Oland
Castle
Pinckney
Ft.Moultrie
Ft Sumter
National
Carter Field
Pannus
Lewis Vs. Green
Brain Trust
Jim Farley
Denver
Colorado Democratic Central Committee