The Confederates or the Southerners
the north won
Confederates
the confederates won
A lot of people died. Also the Sumter won!
It was the beginning of the Civil War.
The Confederates.
the Confederacy
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Fort Sumter surrendered. The Confederates won.
The Confederates. It was April 1861.
These were the opening shots of the war - Confederate artillery firing on the small island garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina (the state that had started the conflict). The Union garrison abandoned the fort and escaped. Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer troops for the Union armies. And four more states retaliated by joining the Confederacy.
The Southern forces in Charleston's harbor forced the Union troops in Fort Sumter to surrender as there was no other choice. "Rescue warships" arrived too late to help the Fort.