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 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 Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A.

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 Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

When he was staying in Nicaea, his cousins, who had been living there, made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.

When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

When in an aggressive mode, a chimp will swagger bipedally, hunched over and arms waving, in an attempt to exaggerate its size.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When an attempt is made to modify ( update, insert into, or delete from ) a table, undesired side-effects may follow.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

When Plissken reluctantly agrees to attempt the rescue, Hauk has him injected with microscopic explosives that will rupture his carotid arteries in 24 hours.

When used in an attempt to be offensive, the word is still considered vulgar, but it remains a mild example of such an insult.

When unskilled fighters get embroiled in combat, a common reaction is to grab the opponent in an attempt to slow the situation down by holding them still, resulting in an unsystematic struggle that relies on brute force.

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

When Madison decided to run for election to the house instead, Henry gerrymandered Madison ’ s home district, filling it with anti-federalists in an attempt to prevent Madison's election.

When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.

" When the flags over the many peat-constructed towers were raised, farmers would go to others ' towers and attempt to " level them to the ground.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

When he remarries, the young Culhwch rejects his stepmother's attempt to pair him with his new stepsister.

When he hastily returned home, the brief attempt at political liberalization in North Korea was ended.