 Complete the following phrase:  Following the bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in April 1861, a few days later, on the 15th, President Lincoln called for volunteers to join the new Union army. The next day, Governor William A. Buckingham, like Lincoln a Republican, issued a proclamation urging his citizens to join state-sponsored regiments and artillery batteries. In response, by the end of the month, the 1st Connecticut Infantry and two other regiments had been raised and recruited for a term of three months all the time that was expected to be needed to crush the rebellion and end the war. Daniel Tyler of Brooklyn was selected as the 1st Regiments initial colonel, and the regiment arrived in 