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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. Surrender cermony at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor.
The battle that was the beginning of the US Civil War, was the canon barrages against the Federal Fort Sumter. The fort was in the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The fort had to surrender and forced US President Lincoln to begin preparations to end the rebellion.
Fort Sumter was and is in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
When South Carolina forced the surrender of Fort Sumter.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. Surrender cermony at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor.
Fort Sumter was a United States fort which happened to be in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, waters claimed by the Confederacy. After its surrender it became Confederate.
The battle that was the beginning of the US Civil War, was the canon barrages against the Federal Fort Sumter. The fort was in the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The fort had to surrender and forced US President Lincoln to begin preparations to end the rebellion.
Fort Sumter
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.
Fort Sumter "is" in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Charleston, SC harbor
The Battle of Fort Sumter began and ended at Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina.
Fort Sumter is located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
Fort Sumter is on an island in Charleston Harbor (Charleston, South Carolina), where the US Civil War is said to have begun.When the South Carolina legislature voted to secede from the US, the US Army refused to turn over the fort. As Union reinforcements sailed for the fort, Confederate forces bombarded it on April 12, 1861. It was surrendered the next day - the only casualties suffered were during a cannon salute to their flag by the departing Union troops. But the seizure of the fort resulted in subsequent military actions by the North against the "rebellious states" of the South.
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