The Civil War began when Southern troops
bombarded Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
When the southern states seceded from the Union,
war was still not a certainty. Federal forts, barracks, and naval
shipyards dotted the southern landscape.
Many Regular Army officers clung
tenaciously to their posts, rather than surrender their facilities to the
growing southern military presence.
President Lincoln attempted to
resupply these garrisons with food and provisions by sea. The
Confederacy learned of Lincoln’s plans and demanded that the forts surrender
under threat of force.
When the U.S. soldiers refused, South Carolinians
bombarded Fort
Sumter in the center of Charleston harbor. After a 34-hour
battle, the soldiers inside the fort surrendered to the Confederates.
Legions of men from north and south rushed to their respective flags in the
ensuing patriotic fervor.
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