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Union
By capturing VicksburgBy liberating Vicksburg, the last major Confederate garrison on the river.
With the firing of Confederate artillery on the island-garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour in April 1861.
The Head of Confederate Forces was Beauregard.Major Robert Anderson was the commander of the US garrison at Fort Sumter.
The address of the Garrison Public Library is: 100 Birch Ave, Garrison, 52229 0026
Union
They surrendered
Main office Base HQ Garrison Home Primary building
John Pope
To assert that this island-garrison was on Confederate territory.
They surrendered
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Beauregard was a Confederate. In Charleston, he ordered the artillery to fire the first shots of the war, at the island garrison of Fort Sumter.
Confederate artillery fired on the island-garrison from The Battery, Charleston.
The Confederate garrison at Vicksburg.
Fort Sumpter
Confederate artillery firing on the Union garrison on the island of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour.