There are/were more than one?
The first battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run
The first battle was on April 12th, 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, which (unofficially) started the Civil War.
Civil War
in 1861 was when the American Civil War started.
The American Red Cross was started because Clara Barton, a Civil War nurse, wanted to take her services even further than what she had already done on the battlefields of many important Civil War battles, so she started the American Red Cross and became its first president from 1882 to 1904.
American Revolution
The American Civil War
Fort Sumter started the American Civil War.
the first gun shot of the civil war was started
After the Civil War African-Americans controlled churches first.
The state of South Carolina was the first state to leave the United States prior to the Civil War. They started the Confederacy.
The South fired the first shot in the American Civil War.