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Name:Ricardo Matadamas
Article:#2
Title of Newspaper:North County Times
Title of Article: This Week in the Civil War
Web Adress: http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/this-week-in-the-civil-war/article_ff28e214-8f23-5c10-8309-14d6818eec9f.html

          This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 6: Battle of Port Royal.
The Associated Press reports that a "great storm at Hatteras Inlet" off North Carolina has drenched Union troops occupying formerly Confederate-held coastal forts there in the first days of November 1861. After the storm, the report adds: "Five rebel steamers came near the inlet yesterday, but returned after firing a couple of shots." The gale is not enough of a deterrent for a U.S. Navy fleet and Army expeditionary force sailing down the coast toward South Carolina on a special mission. The Union force moves into position and opens the Battle of Port Royal Sound, S.C., on Nov. 7, 1861.

         The Civil War connects to us because we learned about the civil war and how the people wanted to be ruled by law not by a king.They broke away from the king and they made the declaration of independence. They also knew they had to make rules so the founding fathers made the Constitution, as we made in our own class room we made our Bill of Right and Our Class Constitution. When we made the constitution attempted  we formed a new imperfect union.

      This Article relates to my life as a citizen, because theres always fights and wars going on everywhere in the world and we as citizens can only bare so much war.Detailed accounts by The Associated Press and others of the Battle of Port Royal, S.C., are reaching newspapers in mid-November of 1861. AP reports Union forces off the South Carolina coast had captured 55 cannons, some 500 muskets and "any quantity of ammunition" in the attack. AP adds: "Thirty dead rebels have been found, and more are being found, having been hastily buried in the sand." The New York Times reports on Nov. 14, 1861, that Union Brig. Gen. Thomas Sherman landed at Port Royal and issued a proclamation to "the people of South Carolina," the state where a Confederate artillery attack on Union-held Fort Sumter opened the war in April 1861.

      We as United States Citizens were Promised Freedom of Speech, Assembly,Religion, Right to Bear Arms, and many more.I Honestly have never seen people take advantage of these rights.People need to stand up for what they believe in. The Civil war has to do alot with the current world and how it works, if we never had the civil war we could of never been the "United States Of America".