Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
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.
Fort Sumter is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and is most famous for being the site of the first battle of the Civil War.
Some six thousand Confederate troops encircled Charleston Harbor that morning. Several dozen cannon and mortars bore on Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter boasted more than four dozen usable guns, but the garrison could man only a few of them at a time.
5 Things to Know About the Battle of Fort Sumter. Key Fact: First Battle of the American Civil War; Theater of War: Eastern Theater; Campaign: Operations in Charleston Harbor; Location: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; Who Won: Confederate States of America; Battle of Fort Sumter History and Overview Election of Abraham Lincoln and the ...
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson’s small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.
After decades of brewing hostility between the North and South over divisive issues like slavery and states‘ rights, the Battle of Fort Sumter marked the official start of the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history.
The Battle. On April 12, 1861 a group of South Carolina militia led by General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard opened fire on Union troops stationed in Charleston’s harbor at Fort Sumter. This attack sparked the American Civil War, leading to four years of bitter fighting and over 600,000 deaths.
Confederate forces shelled Fort Sumter for three and a half days before Northern commander Major Robert Anderson surrendered. This image depicts Fort Sumter as it appeared in 1861.