SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL AND CIVIL WAR

HISTORY

South High’s area

StreetsMascottSchool colorsFlagJohnny Rebel

Surrounding Streets

Monitor Street Merrimack Street Sumter Street Shenandoah Drive Fambrough

Fort Sumter, South CarolinaA Confederate Victory

On April 10, 1861, Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of Fort Sumter, the Union commander refused.

On April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effectively.

At 2:30 pm, April 13, the union surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the following day.

The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.

Valley of Shenandoah, Virgina In an effort to draw Union forces away from

Richmond, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson conducts one of the most audacious and studied military campaigns in American history.

During his invasion of the north, Gen. Robert E. Lee used the Shenandoah Valley as an avenue of advance.

The contest over this “breadbasket of the Confederacy” intensifies and finally culminates in one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War

Shenandoah Valley

Fambrough:GEORGIA 9TH LIGHT ARTILLERY BATTALION

IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, MANY SOLDIERS NAMED FAMBROUGH, FOUGHT IN CONFEDERATE ARMY.

THE REBELS

BATTLES: First Manassas Yorktown New Bridge Seven Days Rappahannock Station Second Manassas Sharpsburg Fredericksburg Suffolk Gettysburg Funks town Charleston Chickamauga Chattanooga Knoxville Wilderness Petersburg Appomattox

The 9th Georgia Regiment was organized June, 1861. Most of the units' members had seen pre-War militia service. The regiment was mustered in at Camp Bartow, Howard's Grove, Richmond, Virginia in June of 1861. Francis S. Bartow was its first commander. The 8th Georgia participated in many engagements during the War, and was known as the "Fighting 8th." President Davis supposedly wrote: "The 8th is known."

The 7th Georgia along with the 8th, 9th, 11th, and 59th made up Gen. 'Tiger Anderson's Brigade in Hood's Division of Longstreet's Corps.

Battle of Monitor and Merrimack

Merrimac and Monitor Duel

Photograph by McCaffrey's Elite Photo, New York, of an artwork depicting the 9 March 1862 battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack). This scene was apparently one of a group entitled "Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle", exhibited in New York City during the 19th Century.

South’s Merrimack Battle shipThe first battle between ironclad warships had ended in stalemate, a situation that lasted until Virginia's self-destruction two months later. However, the outcome of combat between armored equals, compared with the previous day's terrible mis-match, symbolized the triumph of industrial age warfare. The value of existing ships of the line and frigates was heavily discounted in popular and professional opinion. Ironclad construction programs, already underway in America and Europe, accelerated. The resulting armored warship competition would continue into the 1940s, some eight decades in the future.This page features images of the 9 March 1862 action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack and persistently mis-identified in accounts of this battle by that name or as "Merrimac").