Road To Civil War
1861 - 1865

With the election of the anti-slavery Republican

candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln, southern

states decided to secede from the Union. In April 1861,

South Carolina soldiers fired on federal troops at Fort

Sumter. After hearing of this, President Lincoln called

upon states left in the Union and requested that each

of them supply the United States army with troops.

Civil War had come to the United States.