California in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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California in the American Civil War


00:03:06 1 From statehood to the Civil War
00:03:55 1.1 Southern California's attempts at secession from California
00:04:49 1.2 Secession crisis in California
00:05:15 1.2.1 Conspiracy to form a Pacific Republic
00:06:54 1.2.2 Struggle for control of the militia
00:07:49 1.2.3 Secessionist militias
00:09:33 2 Outbreak of the Civil War
00:09:42 2.1 Reaction to the outbreak of war in California
00:12:15 2.2 California volunteers called up
00:13:19 2.3 Turmoil in Southern California
00:14:48 3 Civil War conflicts within California
00:14:58 3.1 Securing Southern California
00:17:47 3.2 Naval incidents
00:18:11 3.2.1 J. M. Chapman plot
00:18:54 3.2.2 iSalvador/i pirates
00:20:02 3.3 Partisan Rangers in California
00:21:26 3.4 1864 election
00:22:08 4 Civil War Era forts and camps in California
00:26:50 5 Civil War military units associated with California
00:30:09 6 Regiments of the California volunteers in federal service
00:32:43 7 The navy and the Civil War in the Pacific
00:32:56 8 Past residents of California in the Civil War
00:34:08 9 See also



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California's involvement in the American Civil War included sending gold east, recruiting volunteer combat units to replace regular forces in territories of the Western United States, maintaining and building numerous camps and fortifications, suppressing secessionist activity (many of these secessionists went east to fight for the Confederacy) and securing the New Mexico Territory against the Confederacy. The State of California did not send its units east, but many citizens traveled east and joined the Union Army there, some of whom became famous. California's Volunteers also conducted many operations against the native peoples within the state and in the other Western territories of the Departments of the Pacific and New Mexico.
Following the Gold Rush, California was settled primarily by Midwestern and Southern farmers, miners and businessmen. Democrats dominated the state from its foundation. Southern Democrats sympathetic to secession, although a minority in the state, were a majority in Southern California and Tulare County, and were in large numbers in San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Monterey, and San Francisco counties. California was home for powerful businessmen who played a significant role in Californian politics through their control of mines, shipping, finance, and the Republican Party but were a minority party until the secession crisis. Nevertheless, the split in the Democratic Party allowed Abraham Lincoln to carry the state, albeit by only a slim margin. Unlike most free states, Lincoln won California with only a plurality as opposed to the outright majority in the popular vote.
In 1860, as tensions escalated in the East, pro-Union Californians protested the perceived pro-Southern bias of the San Francisco Roman Catholic archdiocese's weekly newspaper, The Monitor, by dumping its presses into San Francisco Bay. In the beginning of 1861, as the secession crisis began, the secessionists in San Francisco made an attempt to separate the state and Oregon from the union, which failed. Southern California, with a majority of discontented Californios and Southern secessionists, had already voted for a separate Territorial government and formed militia units, but were kept from secession after Fort Sumter by Federal troops drawn from the frontier forts of the District of Oregon and District of California (primarily Fort Tejon and Fort Mojave).
Patriotic fervor swept California after the attack on Fort Sumter, providing the manpower for Volunteer Regiments recruited mainly from the pro-Union counties in the north of the State. Gold was also provided to support the Union. When the Democratic party split over the war, Republican supporters of Lincoln took control of the state in the September elections. Volunteer Regiments were sent to occupy pro-secessionist Southern California and Tulare Cou ...