The Confederacy was officially proclaimed in Montgomery Alabama in February of 1861. Several garrisoned forts in the newly created Confederacy were abandoned in February and March of that year primarily due to inablitiy of the Federal government to reinforce or supply them. With the innaugauration of Lincoln on March 4 1861 public pressure in the North demanded that some of these garrisons be held to make a show of force to the Seccesionists. These included Fort Sumter at the mouth of Charleston (SC) harbor, Fort Monroe at the mouth of Hampton Roads, and Fort Pickens at the mouth of Pensacola (FL) harbor. Efforts to supply Fort Sumter in April of 1861 were turned away and the fort was bombarded into surrender. This was the action that caused the Civil War. Fort Pickens and Fort Monroe stayed in Union hands throughout the war and another establishment, Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, was never attacked due to inaccessablity. Fort Sumter was returned to Federal control in February of 1865 after the Evacuation of Charleston.
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During the Civil War, the Union army focused on conquiring Southern land and freeing Confederate slaves.
No, the entire purpose of splitting off from Virginia was so that West Virginia could stay in the Union. The population however remained divided and almost an equal number served the Confederacy as they did the Union. The southern border counties remained under Confederate control until the end of the Civil War.
The Confederacy mobilized between 750,000 to 850,000 men. This figure represented 75 to 85% of its available draft age white military population. Historically this is a high rate and was made possible by slave labor that remained the backbone of the Southern economy.
The southern states were Confederate states. The northern states were part of the Union. :)
In 1861, the southern delegates form the confederate states of America.
Within the large parameters of the Confederate military, there were any number of names given to large armies in the US Civil War. For example, two large Southern armies were the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
The southern states played a larger role in the Civil War due to their secession from the Union and formation of the Confederate States of America. The northern states ultimately won the war and preserved the Union.
The South called itself The Confederate States of America - not recognised by Congress, which just designated them 'the states in rebellion'. The North, or what remained of the United States, was known as The Union.
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The need for agricultural workers in the early southern colonies lead to the practice of slavery. Slavery remained a contentious issue until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
The North was called the Union because it represented those states that remained in "union" together as the Unites States, and because it was fighting to preserve that union by keeping the rebellious Southern states from leaving it.