Today, Fort Union is preserved by the National Park Service as an outdoor museum on the Santa Fe Trail.

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Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

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The fort's commander asked Pryor if he would like the honor of firing the mortar that would begin the attack.

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If any boat carrying troops refused to stop, the state soldiers were to sink it and seize the fort.

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The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

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He told Davis, "Firing upon that fort will begin a civil war greater than any the world has ever seen.

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It was the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, which is held every four years at Fort A.P.Hill army base.

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At Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson and his men waited three hours before firing back at the Confederate guns.

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Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

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On the last day of eighteen sixty, he ordered two hundred troops and extra supplies sent to Fort Sumter.

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And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

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At the end of March, Lincoln held another cabinet meeting and again asked what should be done about Fort Sumter.

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A model fort is the only structure in the park built in the exact place as the first building.

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One United States soldier,however, was killed the next day when a cannon exploded as Anderson's men prepared to leave the fort.

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They were in the open at the top of the fort, where there was no protection for the gunners.

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He said the attempt by the United States to strengthen its force at Fort Sumter was clearly an act of aggression.

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It read: "This is to inform you that an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with food only.

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French troops in Canada built a fort to control passage to the lake as a defense against British troops moving north.

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Six days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the commander of Charleston's forts decided to move his men to Fort Sumter.

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The area of the Santa Fe Trail around Fort Union was also involved in the American Civil War.

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Fort Hood is a huge base that has lost more than five hundred soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Jefferson Davis said there was no need to attack the fort if hunger would soon force the United States soldiers to leave.

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During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

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He said southern defenses around the fort were so strong that a major military effort would be necessary.

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Visitors can also find a link to the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, with information about a free electronic field trip for students.

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In nineteen seventy-three,Alice Walker placed a marker in Fort Pierce,Florida, where Hurston is believed to be buried.

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This week in our series, Jack Moyles and Stuart Spencer tell about the attack on Fort Sumter.

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If South Carolina attacked, or planned to attack, then he could move his men into the fort that would be easiest to defend.

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