After the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers. He requested that each of them serve for three months.
The major results were: - the outbreak of the Civil War; - Lincoln call for 75,000 volunteers to fight the rebellion. - The Secession of Virginia, Arkansas, tennessee and North Carolina.
Fort Sumter was a fort back when Lincoln was president.
Virginia seceded almost immediately after Lincoln's call for troops.
Lincoln sent a ship to Fort Sumter in 1861 because the troops needed food and supplies.
After coming under Confederate artillery fire, the Union garrison was evacuated, and Lincoln retaliated by calling for 75,000 volunteers for the Union army.
Fort Sumter
Lincoln's call for volunteers, following the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate artillery.
Immediately the Fort Sumter garrison had to be evacuated. He called for 75,000 volunteers, which prompted four more states to join the Confederates. The war was firmly on.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for the army. He time the volunteers would serve was for three months. Lincoln's response to to quickly end the rebellion, and he was certain it would.
April 1861 - as a response to Lincoln's call for volunteers in the North immediately after the surrender of Fort Sumter. It was one of the last four states to secede.
The succession of the Upper South states
The Federal fort, Fort Sumter was located in the Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Southern forces attacked Fort Sumter, and the commander of the fort surrendered. This conflict led to US President Lincoln to ask for volunteers to serve for 3 months.
The major results were: - the outbreak of the Civil War; - Lincoln call for 75,000 volunteers to fight the rebellion. - The Secession of Virginia, Arkansas, tennessee and North Carolina.
Fort Sumter was a fort back when Lincoln was president.
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Lincoln's decision to proclaim that an uprising had broken and asking to the Governors 75,000 volunteers to suppress it.
Tennessee was one of the four slave-states of the Upper South which seceded as a result of the Fort Sumter assault and Lincoln's call for volunteers. The other four stayed loyal - to Lincoln's immense relief.