President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

In response, Confederate gunmen led by General P.G.T. Beauregard started firing at Fort Sumter on the morning of April 12, 1861. The attack commenced just after 4:30 a.m. Some 34 hours later ...

The Providence Journal publishes the following description of Fort Sumter by a gentleman just ... considering the severity and duration of the attack, and the heavy ordinance used against it ...

April 12, 1861 ... he had been eyeing Fort Sumter. He had clearance to move his command there if attacked or if he had “tangible evidence” of a coming attack. By Christmas, he had made ...

From the Georgia Guardian "Why is not Fort Sumter attacked?" "Why don't they attack Fort Sumter?" "What is the Governor about that he don't attack Fort Sumter?" "The troops are ready, willing and ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a ...

We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ... having made no attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. The battle lasted 34 hours before Anderson surrendered. Despite the attack’s intensity, no ...

From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox four years later, over 620,000 people were killed ...

In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding ... "It was designed to defend against seaborne attack from a foreign power. Nobody expected that one day this fort would be the target ...

With the secession of South Carolina in late 1861, only Sumter remained in Union hands ... 1863), the unsuccessful naval attack on the fort (September 8–9), and, of course, William T. Sherman’s entry ...