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| a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. |
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| president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War |
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I: fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
II: fought on August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. It was the combination of an offensive campaign waged by Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against John Pope's Army of Virginia. A battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground. |
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| outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War, plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two |
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| a major general during the American Civil War, he organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army |
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| presidential reconstruction |
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