...April 11, 1861, the Confederate General Beauregard asked Maj. Anderson, commander of the Union troops at Fort Sumter, to evacuate. Beauregard told the Union major we would start our attack on the Union fort in only one hour, when he received an unsuitable reply. 4:30 the next morning, 43 of us gathered around Fort Sumter and started to fire. After two hours the Union soldiers began an attempt to fire back at us. Throughout the entire three days that …showed first 75 words of 993 total…

…showed last 75 words of 993 total…two days the two armies were facing each other in a field. Three of the Confederate corps were slaughtered. For 12 more days we faced off, until General Grant led his army to the James River and took them across the bridge, planning an attack on Petersburg. April 9, 1865. We marched on to the Appomattox Courthouse to stop Lee's cavalry. General Grant stopped us, surrounding us on three sides. General Lee surrendered, and the war was over...