Tuesday, 12 April 2011

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 12 APRIL 1861: FORT SUMTER FIRED ON - THIS BEGINS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - FOR WALES IT'S ABOUT CANNONS, COAL and SLAVERY!


The below is an introduction to future posts on the Welsh Connections during the American Civil War, give me time as this will take some time researching. in mean time see previous posts on the Confederates and Wales in this blog:

  1. 26 Mar 2011 ... HWB HANES CYMRU/WELSH HISTORY HUB: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865 . .... In Charleston's Museum of the Confederacy the Civil War is still ...
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  2. HWB HANES CYMRU/WELSH HISTORY HUB: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865 ...

    30 Dec 2010 ... HWB HANES CYMRU/WELSH HISTORY HUB. ALL MATTERS WELSH HISTORY ... A campaign to prevent the Confederacy's notorious "Stars and Bars" from ...
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FORT SUMTER 1861 - 2011:

  1. News for Firing on Fort Sumter


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  2. Connecticut Marks 150th Anniversary of Start of Civil War
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    ... Anniversary of the confederate attack on Fort Sumter, SC, was marked with the firing of 10 cannons Tuesday morning at the Connecticut State Capitol. ...
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  4. Battle of Fort Sumter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and..... When the fort had to pause its firing, the Confederates often cheered and ...
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    Robert Anderson, commander of the U.S. troops holding Fort Sumter in Charleston ... was given the honor of firing the first shot in defense of the fort. ...
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  7. The Battle of Fort. Sumter Official Records and Battle Description

    13 Jan 2005 ... The Attack on Fort Sumter (April 12-13, 1861) ...mortally) when a cannon exploded prematurely when firing a salute during the evacuation. ...
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  9. Firing-on-Fort-Sumter-home-page

    30 Mar 2011 ... firing on Fort Sumter was a spectacle and civilians lined the battery, roof tops, and anyplace that had a view. Civilians ...
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  10. The First Shot of the Civil War, 1861

    An EyeWitness account of the surrender of Fort Sumter. ... Firing on Fort Sumter From a contemporary illustration. After her secession from the Union, ...
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  11. The Battle of Fort Sumter

    Civil War Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12-14, 1861 in Fort Sumter, ...commanding Fort Johnson's east mortar battery, ordered the firing of a signal shell. ...
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  12. Civil War: Boom Of Cannons Marks Attack On Fort Sumter, Civil ...

    12 Apr 2011 ... Cannon roared again Tuesday morning, this time at the state Capitol to mark the 150th anniversary of opening hostilities that would stretch ...
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  13. Fort Sumter

    Charleston Harbor was the tinderbox of the Civil War, but Fort Sumterwas nothing ... some out of apertures (casemates) and some firing over the wall (en ...
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  14. Firing on Fort Sumter: "The Opening Ball" : " Remembering April, 1861"

    Reenactment of a Civil War era Victorian Ball, celebrating the fall of Fort Sumter at the War's beginning.
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