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Was a slaved pilot for the Confederacy Army until he decided seize a transport vessel and get away. Once he got to the North he helped convience President Lincoln to allow African American soldiers to the Union Army.
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The Sucession Convention was when eleven states cut ties with the Union.
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The Union forces blockaded the Confederate ports in Charleston, so that the Confederacy could not export cotton and smuggle war materials.
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General P.T.G. Beauregard commanded the Confederate forces to Charleston Harbor and open fired on Fort Sumter.
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The Hunley Submarine sunk the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor. This act of the Confederacy did not change the course of the Civil War, it changed Naval Warfare.
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Gen. William T. Sherman marched 60,000 soldiers from Altanta to Savannah, Georiga. He hoped this would scare Georgia's civilzens into leaving the Confederate cause.
