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On This Day in Confederate History, April 11.

1861: Fort Sumter Campaign: General Beauregard sends Col. James Chesnut Jr., James A. Chisholm, and Capt. Stephen Dill Lee to deliver an ultimatum to Major Anderson at Fort Sumter demanding the immediate evacuation of Fort Sumter or else hostilities would commence.

Col. James Chesnut Jr.

1862: The Siege of Fort Pulaski ends with the surrender of the fort by the Confederates. During the 112 day siege, one Federal was killed and several were wounded. The Confederates lost several men mortally wounded and 363 captured.

1863: The Siege of Suffolk, Va. commenced on this day. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet commanded 25,000 Confederates of the Army of Northern Virginia's First Corps. Maj. Gen. John Peck commanded 20,000 defenders of the fortifications. Longstreet's forces kept the Northmen bottled up while his quartermaster gathered much needed supplies for Gen. Robert E. Lee's ANV.

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