Fort Sumter was only one in a ... shots exchanged in anger between the United States and the Confederate States—then fell silent. (Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.) ...

Those who made it past Fort Sumter were able to reach United States gunboats or infantrymen. One of those escapes was led by Robert Smalls in one of the most daring and well-known escapes of the war.

Fort Sumter's commanding officer had taught the Confederate commander years earlier at West Point Military Academy. — Confederate soldiers cheered the bravery of the fort’s Union defenders.

SIR: The Government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstration against Fort sumter, in the hope that the Government of the United States, with a view to the ...

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