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  2. Battle of Fort Sumter - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Fort Sumter - Wikipedia

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    The attack on Fort Sumter is generally taken as the beginning of the American Civil War—the first shots fired. Certainly it was so taken at the time—citizens of Charleston were celebrating. The First Battle of Fort Sumter began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolina Militia artillery fired from shore on the Union garrison. These were (both ...

  4. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War

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    The U. S. Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane leaves New York with supplies for Fort Sumter. [352] [353] Confederate Secretary of State Robert Toombs opposes using force against Fort Sumter but President Jefferson Davis says that the Confederate States had created a nation and he had a duty as its executive to use force if necessary. [353] [354]

  5. List of American Civil War battles - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Fort Sumter: South Carolina: A: Confederate: Beauregard takes Charleston Federal fort in the first battle of the American Civil War. May 18 –19, 1861: Battle of Sewell's Point: Virginia: D: Inconclusive: Union gunboats fight inconclusive battle with Confederate artillery. May 29 – June 1, 1861: Battle of Aquia Creek: Virginia: D ...

  6. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Fort Sumter, as depicted by Currier and Ives. The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. [47] Its status had been contentious for months.

  7. Charleston in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    In the First and Second Battle of Fort Wagner, Confederates repelled and inflicted heavy casualties on U.S. forces attempting to capture the fort. The Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, however, resulted in Confederate abandonment of Fort Wagner by September 1863. An attempt to recapture Fort Sumter by a U.S. naval raiding party also failed ...

  8. Timeline of Kentucky in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    April 12, 1861 • Confederate forces attack a Federal fort outside Charleston, South Carolina, at the Battle of Fort Sumter, beginning the American Civil War.; May 10, 1861 • Confederate engineers begin construction of Fort Donelson only twelve miles south of the Kentucky line near Dover, Tennessee.

  9. List of naval battles of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The first shots of the naval war were fired on April 12, 1861, during the Battle of Fort Sumter, by the US Revenue Cutter Service cutter USRC Harriet Lane. The final shots were fired on June 22, 1865, by the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah in the Bering Strait , more than two months after General Robert E. Lee 's surrender of the Confederate ...