The Brothers War

The Brothers War

Hey! Where are you all going?

The Soldiers - Rebel or Yankee?

The Brothers War

4:30 A.M. April 12th 1861

Call 911!!

Minimum age

in North was 18

Ft Sumter in Charleston Harbor was running out of supplies.

The SC governor ordered all the federal property in the state to be given up. Lincoln refused and sent messenger to Charleston, " supplies will be sent to Ft Sumter".

Confederate Private

Edwin Jemison

Killed in the

Battle of Malvern Hill in Virginia in 1862

Appears to be

about 16.

General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opens fire on Ft. Sumter .

Approximately, 4,000 cannon shells were exchanged. 34 hrs. later, Major Robert Anderson (Beauregard's teacher at West Point) surrendered.

Only a horse was among the

casualties.

Jefferson Davis and cabinet agreed,

"Ft. Sumter must be captured

before supplied!"

How old are they?? ur lying

Drummer Jackson

"Johnny Reb"

"Billy Yank"

Samuel Phillips Lee,

relative of Robert E. Lee

remained in the Union.

No Minimum

age in South

Francis Louisa Clayton

Alias "Jack William"

Youngest known soldier-

Johnny Clem(Union)

Age 9 Drummer Boy

Age 11 Soldier

Age 12 Sergeant

January 9-26

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana seceded

from the Union.

1st to secede from Union December 20, 1860.

February 1

Texas convention votes for sucession from the Union.

"Drummer" Jackson

A young former slave who served in Northern troops.

1861

1860

2 presidents?

NIce Beards!

Lincoln's Declaring War War War!!

February 18

Jefferson Davis inaugurated

as provisional president

of the Confederacy.

(Really wanted to be a general)

• Born in KY
• MS plantation owner
• West Point
• Congressman
• Senator
• Sec. of War under Pierce
• 6 children/3 died in childhood

Volunteers wanted!! Lincoln declared the South was in a state of rebellion and asked state governors for 75,000 militiamen for 90 days

to put down rebellion

March 4

Lincoln takes the oath

as the 16th president of

the United States.

• Born in KY
• Lawyer
• Congressman-1846
• Ran for Senator in 1858
• 4 children - 2 died in childhood

April 17th Virginia May 6th Arkansas May 20th North Carolina and June 8th Tennessee seceded the Union.

No problem

getting men

to sign up.

Both sides

thought it

would

be a short

war.

What's those purple states?

April 17th

18 year old student at the University of Charlotte wrote in their Diary

"No studying today. News of Va's succession reached here about 10 oc'lk amid huzzas and shouts..."War! War!War! was on placards all about." ..."the scum of the North cannot face the chivalric spirit of the South."

Hey!! What's with

West Virginia?

But ... training

was a problem.

Southerns were

more skilled than

Northerners.

"We have been wading through mud knee deep ...For the last two weeks we have been drilled almost to death. Squad drill from 6 to 7. Drill from 2 to 4 1/2 P.M. Dress Parade from 5 to 5 1/2 P.M. and non-commissioned officers' school from 7 to 8 in the evening. If we don't soon become a well drilled Regiment, we ought to."