The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War.
The next day, Davis ordered Beauregard to reduce Fort Sumter. Early on the morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort ...
He also ordered his crews to redouble their efforts at firing, but the Confederates did the same, firing the hot shots almost exclusively. Many of the Confederate ...
of Fort Sumter as soon as he was certain that President Lincoln's resupply order was ...
assault against Pickens that led Confederate officials in Montgomery to shift their attention to Fort Sumter.
Scott ordered General Irvin McDowell to advance on Confederate troops ...
The Confederates demanded immediate evacuation of the fort. However
as Lincoln's order sending a "hostile fleet, styled the 'Relief Squadron'," to reinforce Fort Sumter.
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces in South Carolina shelled a Union base that President Abraham
The Union is aided by a copy of Lee's orders, left by a Confederate soldier at a campsite.