46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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“I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.” This is the story of the last, bare thread holding the Union together snapping. This is the start of the Civil War. US President Lincoln is giving Confederate President Jefferson Davis a difficult choice: let a peaceful, unarmed boat deliver supplies to Fort Sumter (and be seen as weak); or attack the unarmed boat (and be seen as the aggressor). Jeff chooses the latter. More states secede. Regiments form by the thousands on both sides. Blood flows in Missouri and Baltimore. And amid all of this, US Colonel Robert E. Lee faces the most important and difficult decision of his life: does he raise his sword against his nation? Or his home state and family? The Civil War has begun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	Pierre Gustave Toutant-Borregard, or simply Beauregard, as he's often called, is not enjoying
0:50.2	his current situation.
0:52.4	As of last month, this 42-year-old French-blooded Louisiana became the first and thus far only
0:58.3	general of the newly established Confederate States of America.
1:03.2	Now it's April 11, 1861, and he's in Charleston, South Carolina, charged with making the US forces
1:09.9	still holding on to their island fortification out in the harbor.
1:14.1	The star-shaped multi-level Fort Sumter...leave.
1:19.4	As he and his superior see it, South Carolina seceded from the US nearly four months ago,
1:25.0	but still, those US troops won't budge.
1:28.7	They have to go with the Palmetto State, and now the Confederate States of America, or
1:33.3	CSA, are going to assert their sovereignty.
1:37.2	As such, Beauregard has orders to destroy Fort Sumter.
1:41.6	But he doesn't want to do it.
1:45.7	I mean, the commander out there is his old West Point professor and friend, Major Robert
1:51.1	Anderson.
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