Four states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy, and the two sides were fully lined-up.
The succession of the Upper South states
Lincoln's call for volunteers, following the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate artillery.
In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers from the various states to join the Union army and suppress the rebellion in the southern states. This was in response to the attack on Fort Sumter and the secession of several southern states. The call for volunteers sparked intense patriotic fervor and propelled the United States into the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation declared that southern blacks could fight for the north.
The South were ferocious. They did not want slavery to end and feared that Abraham Lincoln would end slavery. That is why the Confederate States of America was formed.
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The immediate effect of the Confederacy firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, was the outbreak of the Civil War. The attack galvanized Northern public opinion, leading to widespread support for the Union cause and a call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion. Additionally, it prompted President Abraham Lincoln to issue a call for 75,000 troops, marking a significant escalation in tensions between the North and South. The attack also solidified Southern states' resolve to secede and form the Confederate States of America.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers. He requested that each of them serve for three months.
Because it was the nearest thing to a declaration of war on the South. (The Union could not make a formal declaration, because Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.)
Fort Sumter