At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter bombarded, Civil War begins by: David Tristan. Posted: Apr 12, 2024 / 09:10 AM EDT. ... By April, the garrison at Fort Sumter was running low on food.

The firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, was a fateful moment — one of the most profound in U.S. history — and in many ways the moment modern America was born.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War on Fort Sumter, a Federal stronghold located at the mouth of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

To Brig.-Gen. P.G.T. BEAUREGARD, Commanding Provisional Army C.S.A. [Copy.] FORT SUMTER, S.C., April 12, 1861, 3:20 A.M. SIR: By the authority of Brigadier-General BEAUREGARD, commanding the ...

The American Civil War began at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12th, 1861. After South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, Major Robert Anderson moved his command ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

On April 9, 1865, almost exactly four years to the day of the Confederate’s shelling of Fort Sumter, Robert E. Lee surrendered to General U.S. Grant, ending the Civil War.

CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT—THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BEGAN ON APRIL 12, 1861, when General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston.

The firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, was a fateful moment — one of the most profound in U.S. history — and in many ways the moment modern America was born.