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Civil War
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Battle of fort sumter
Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. This is important because this was the first batte and the start of the civil war because the confederates attacked federal property.
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First bull run
First real conflict of the civil war. This is important because the South won that battle and it gave them confident to figth the union
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Battle of Hampton Roads
They fougth using ironclads and it was a draw.
This is important because this was the first naval battle in the civil war and the most signifacant naval battle in navale history.