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 ...

It was also the moment our Civil War began — 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861 — 150 years ... of light high above Fort Sumter. This was the signal for the Confederate attack on the U.S. fort ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...