A first book in American history with European beginnings . The Inauguration of Lincoln. were Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana,and Texas. A few months later Arkansas, North Carolina,Virginia, and Tennessee joined the Confederate States andraised their new flag in place of the stars and stripes. No sooner had the seven southern states declaredthemselves out of the Union than they began to seize uponthe United States forts and arsenals within their limits. 339 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY This was the state of affairs when Abraham Lincoln leftSpringfield and journeyed to Was
A first book in American history with European beginnings . The Inauguration of Lincoln. were Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana,and Texas. A few months later Arkansas, North Carolina,Virginia, and Tennessee joined the Confederate States andraised their new flag in place of the stars and stripes. No sooner had the seven southern states declaredthemselves out of the Union than they began to seize uponthe United States forts and arsenals within their limits. 339 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY This was the state of affairs when Abraham Lincoln leftSpringfield and journeyed to Washington, where he wasinaugurated on the 4th of March, 1861. The new President fully realized the gravity of theresponsibility which had fallen upon him. In his inau-gural address he went over the situation. But while hedenied the right of the southern states to secede from theUnion and vowed to do all in his power to preserve, pro-. Firing on Fort Sumter. tect, and defend it, he assured the southern sympa-thizers that if civil war came it would be the South thatwould start it. One month went by, and then the South put a finalend to all hope of peace between herself and the southern general demanded the surrender of Fort Sum-ter, in Charleston Harbor. The officer in charge , on April 12th, southern batteries opened fireon Fort Sumter and kept on firing until the fort was sur-rendered. 340 LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR This was too much. The North was ablaze with re-sentment. So when Lincoln called for seventy-five thou-sand men to defend the Union, more than ninety thousandenlisted. Washington was turned into a veritable campand put into a state of defense. The men of the Southwere hurrying to join the Confederate army and rushingto the protection of Richmond, the capital of the Confed-erate States. On to Washington! was the cry of the South. Onto Richmond! rang throughout the North. JULY, 186
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