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The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War—a war that lasted four years, cost the lives of more than 620,000 Americans, and freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage. How it ended. Confederate victory. With supplies nearly exhausted and his troops outnumbered, Union major Robert Anderson surrendered ...
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Sep 30, 2024 · Battle of Fort Sumter, (April 12–14, 1861), the opening engagement of the American Civil War, at the entrance to the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina. Although Fort Sumter held no strategic value to the North—it was unfinished and its guns faced the sea rather than Confederate shore batteries—it held enormous value as a symbol of the ...
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Jan 12, 2024 · April 12 — Confederates Fire the First Shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. At 4:30 a.m., April 12, 1861, from the beach near Fort Johnson, Captain George S. James’s battery of the South Carolina Artillery fired a mortar shot over Fort Sumter, signaling the other harbor batteries to begin their bombardment.
- Harry Searles
Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins. Nearly a century of discord between North and South finally exploded in April 1861 with the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Fergus M. Bordewich. April 2011. After ...
The Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War. Following the declaration of secession ...
Oct 8, 2017 · Written by Jonathan M. Atkins. 3 minutes to read. John Bell was one of antebellum Tennessee's most prominent politicians and an acknowledged leader of the state's Whig Party. The son of a farmer and blacksmith, Bell was born in Davidson County and graduated from Cumberland College in 1814. After his admission to the bar in 1816, he opened a law ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Fort Sumter, an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, is most famous for being the site of the first battle of the American Civil War. Originally constructed in 1829 ...
