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The Battle at Ft. Sumter.
It was the first time actual gunfire was exchanged. As such, it was the first battle of the Civil War.
They destroyed Ft. Sumter and it was turned over to them.
April 1861
If you mean battle it was Ft. Sumter on April 12, 1861.
On 12 and 13 April 1861.
Ft. Sumter
It was the opening battle of the US Civil War in which the South took the Fort.
For the Confederates General P.G.T. Beauregard For the Union - Major Robert Anderson, who commanded Fort Sumter.
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Confederate artillery firing from Charleston across the harbour.
Because it was only a tiny island-garrison.