"The last act of the drama of Fort Sumter was concluded," the report says Mr. Harper. "Major Anderson evacuated, and, with his command, left the steamer Port Isabel. Saluted the flag, and the company, then formed in the parade, marched on the platform, with drum and fife playing" Yankee Doodle. "came the curtain at Fort Sumter, but the drama of the Civil War was just beginning.
Although Fort Sumter was the official start of the war in which the federal army suffered more than 630 000 victims of the southern state of about 483 000 people (including 359 000 deaths on the Federal Confederation deaths and 258 000) , was not the first unofficial battle of the war. When the drafters of the Constitution met in Philadelphia, are usually gambled slavery issue for future generations, agreed by both the three-fifths compromise (in which the slaves were calculated with three fifths representation, thus increasing the weight political slavery of the South), and prohibits Congress to prohibit the slave trade for 20 years, further compromises, the Missouri endangered in 1820, endangered in 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act sought to divide between North and South and to prevent the possibility of a civil war.
But with increasing abolition sentiment in the north, leading to attempts at rebellion in the south and these events, like Kansas in the mid-1850s and the infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857 in 1860 it appeared that all attempts to reconcile the north and south had gone for nothing. By February 1, 1861, just months after Lincoln's election in November 1860, seven Southern states seceded (South Carolina was first, December 20, 1860, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana and Texas in January in February 1). They will be joined by four other Southern states (Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee, Kentucky, and not to West Virginia would remain loyal to the Union and become West Virginia), stroke dagger in the country headlong towards civil war.
While we remember the sacrifice of the soldiers who fought in the war and discuss the war in succession (and the reasons for it), it is important to remember, of course, that even if Fort Sumter was when the first shots were reported in this fire, was more than 70 years, the policy of "compromise" and the decisions that the United States led the skirmish of 34 hours is a man of the port of Charleston.
