General Beauregard informed the Confederate government in Montgomery that Anderson refused to surrender. He also reported the major's statement that Sumter had only enough food for a few more days.
Reactions were divided by geography, and the country split in a way that would later be echoed by the division between the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War.
It's a somewhat a historic location in that during the Civil War, the Confederate troops marched through the end of our farm across the Potomac to Antietam.
His grandfather, the original J.B. Sessions, was named after two icons of the Confederacy, Jeferson Davis and P.G.T.Beauregard, and was 2 when his own father died at Antietam.
Some have already started voicing their fears that the removal of Confederate states is a slippery slope that will lead to monuments to Washington and Jefferson being taken down.
However, once he was there, he began to understand that there were many problems with the Articles of Confederation (or the legal document that existed before the Constitution).
After the start of the Civil War, Virginia seceded from the United States and its capital city of Richmond eventually became the capital of the Confederate States.
Many of those responding to these events were the same people who responded very differently later when statues of Confederates and slaveholders were the focus.
They did. They leaped over the wall, bayoneted their enemies, smashed skulls with clubbed muskets, and planted the battleflags of the South on Cemetery Ridge.
Separately, lawmakers in Mississippi voted Sunday to remove the Confederate symbol from their state flag. Their governor is expected to sign the bill soon.