When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When an Apache war chief wipes out a company and kidnaps several children, Dundee throws together a makeshift army, including unwilling Confederate veterans, black Federal soldiers, and traditional Western types, and takes off after the Indians.

When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.

When Grant took Presidential office in 1869, Reconstruction of the former Confederate States had not been completed.

When the American Civil War broke out, he served in the 22nd Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States of America.

When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, Longstreet's wing of 25, 000 men in five divisions counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war.

When the U. S. Representatives and Senators from the former Confederate states reached Washington, they set as a priority the creation of a statute prohibiting any future President or Congress from directing, by military order or federal legislation, the imposition of federal troops in any U. S. state.

" When the Confederate Flag flew over the court house in Floyd, it was saluted by nearly everyone, but not so with our neighbors across the river.

When the first charter of the town was secured by an attorney representing the railroad ( Middleton P. Barrow ), the name was changed to Cornelia in honor of his second wife ( and daughter of Confederate Major General Henry R. Jackson ), and so it has remained.

When Osband learned that Confederate Colonel A. J.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the majority of Newtown's young men joined Confederate forces.

When news of the Confederate warship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the American Civil War Confederates, they named many mining claims after the ship, and the name came to be applied to the entire range.

When Robert E. Lee retreated from Gettysburg, over 5000 wounded Confederate soldiers were left behind which were then treated by Dix's nurses, like Cornelia Hancock who wrote about what she saw —" There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today ...."

When Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan entered upon his Peninsula Campaign in spring 1862, the important duty of keeping the Confederate forces of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley from reinforcing the defenses of Richmond fell to the two divisions commanded by Banks.

When news reached him of the Confederate victory at Bull Run in July 1861 he was very pleased, although 15 months later he wrote that " the American War ... has manifestly ceased to have any attainable object as far as the Northerns are concerned, except to get rid of some more thousand troublesome Irish and Germans.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 he moved to Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, to edit the powerful Richmond Enquirer.

For example Johnny Reb meant a Confederate soldier, and a popular song was " When Johnny Comes Marching Home ".

When the Civil War started in 1861, Akerman joined the Confederate Army and achieved the rank of Colonel.

When two major assaults ( May 19 and May 22, 1863 ) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25.

When the Civil War broke out, Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory was an early enthusiast for the advantages of armor.

When news reached Dublin of the capture of the Aud and the arrest of Casement, Nathan conferred with the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Wimborne.

When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison ( the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales ), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development.

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

When he came to mount the steps to the scaffold, he is widely quoted as saying ( to the officials ): " I pray you, I pray you, Mr Lieutenant, see me safe up and for my coming down, I can shift for myself "; while on the scaffold he declared that he died " the king's good servant, but God's first.

When this failed, Short tried to give an order to Lieutenant Putland, Bligh's son-in-law, to stand by to fire on Bligh's ship.

When Stauffenberg sent Tresckow a message through Lieutenant Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort asking whether there was any reason for trying to assassinate Hitler given that no political purpose would be served, Tresckow's response was: " The assassination must be attempted, coûte que coûte the cost.

When the pilots continue to ask about their transfer applications, Savage tries to enlist a young pilot, Medal of Honor-nominee Lieutenant Jesse Bishop ( Robert Patten ) to help him change their attitudes.

When news of the My Lai Massacre broke, Westmoreland resisted pressure from the Nixon administration for a cover-up, and pressed for a full and impartial investigation by Lieutenant General William R. Peers.

When Major General Nathanael Greene took command in the South, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee were ordered in January 1781 to attack Georgetown but were unsuccessful.

When Lieutenant John Pershing, the future Army general, was appointed as a military instructor at the University of Nebraska while attending its law school, he and Dawes became acquainted and formed a lifelong friendship.

When the former Lieutenant Governor, Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, returned in 1610, he found Port Royal just as it was left.

When his Lieutenant is wounded, Redmond helps take him to a German village for treatment.

When Éamon de Valera was nominated as President of the Executive Council in 1932, McNeill opted to travel to Leinster House, the parliament buildings, to appoint de Valera, rather than require that he go to the Viceregal Lodge, the Governor-General's residence and the former seat of British Lords Lieutenant, so as to avoid embarrassing de Valera, who was a republican.

When the Guard was called into the service for the Mexican Border War, 18 June 1916, he was commissioned First Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant.

When, therefore, the violent agitation in Ireland against Wood's halfpence made it necessary to replace the Duke of Grafton as Lord Lieutenant, Carteret was sent to Dublin.

When the attack finally lessened, Lieutenant Frederic H. White ordered Miller to help move injured sailors through oil and water to the quarterdeck, thereby " unquestionably saving the lives of a number of people who might otherwise have been lost.

When warnings were received of the approach of a large force of Japanese torpedo bombers, Lieutenant Commander O ' Hare volunteered to lead a fighter section of aircraft from his carrier, the first time such a mission had been attempted at night, in order to intercept the attackers.

When the Revolution erupted in 1789, he became leader of the Jacobin Club in Besançon, and, when a regiment of volunteers of the départment of the Gard marched through the city, he was elected Lieutenant Colonel.

When a diver, who is Abbott's competitor for the affections of Nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair ( Davis ) back at home, gets into a dangerous situation, Abbott must struggle to keep his personal and professional lives separate in dealing with the crisis.

When, in 1921, the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, created in the Fourth Home Rule Act ( known as the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ) met ( or supposedly met, only four MPs, all unionists, turned up for the State Opening of Parliament by the Lord Lieutenant ), it assembled in the Royal College of Science instead of the old Parliament House.

When Lieutenant Wallingford suggested that instead they might take the young gentleman they saw on the way to the house, Lady Selkirk replied that they would have to kill her first.

When Macdonald's Tories returned to power in 1878, Tilley again became minister of finance and served until his retirement from politics in 1885 when he was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

When Townshend was dismissed, in April 1717, from his post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Walpole resigned, they were followed in their retirement by Pulteney.