While secession and the coming Civil War focus on the future of blacks in America, Native Americans are also impacted by the looming conflict. Today, all Union troops are ordered to leave Indian territories in Confederate control. The Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks (link) web site sums up…
Today a career United States military officer accepts U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron’s offer of a commission as colonel of the First Cavalry. The officer’s name is Robert E. Lee. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had submitted the commission to the Senate on March 21, and the offer was formalized four days later. Even as…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, over the objection of some advisors, decides to attempt to resupply Fort Sumter on April 6. The die is cast. Lincoln knows that Confederate forces in Charleston will resist the resupply efforts, which in turn could well lead to the formal beginnings of the war that is inevitable. Meanwhile, Mississippi…