Chattanooga
Confederate leaders agreed to let food supplies in, but then attacked the ships.
Confederate artillery, under their local commander P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from the Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina was attacked by Confederate forces on April 12th, 1861, effectively starting the American Civil War.
Cause: Union ships were going to take supplies to the Fort when Confederate forces attacked the supply ships. Effect: The Civil War began
burnside
The union troops attacked the southern position on the missionary ridge and defeated the Confederate troops driving them out of their cover.
With Grant now in command of all union troops and tough Union commanders in charge of divisions at Chattanooga, Union troops overcame strong Confederate resistance. They attacked a superior Confederate stronghold at Missionary Ridge, turned the tide, and gave the Union a brilliant victory.
General Robert E. Lee attacked the Union because he wanted to give the Southern farmers a break because their crops where exhuasted
P.G.T. BeauregardConfederate general who attacked fort sumter?
the confederate attacked the union and that started the war.
nothing really
Union troops repulsed them.
The Greeks defended, the Persians attacked to get through the pass into southern Greece.
It was attacked in 1993 By a group called Black November.
April 12, 1861
On the 23rd of November, Union troops captured Orchard Knob, an elevation in the plain between Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge. Grant ordered an assault on Lookout Mountain at 8 A.M. on November 24th. The decisive phase of the battle began at 7 A.M. on November 25th, when Sherman's force attacked Confederate entrenchments on the northern slopes of Missionary Ridge.
Confederate leaders agreed to let food supplies in, but then attacked the ships.