They caused Lincoln to call for 75,000 volunteers - effectively declaring war - which provoked four more Southern states into joining the Confederacy.
Fort Sumter
Confederate Troops
The first shots were artillery fire from the Union's Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
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Fort Sumter
South Carolina
First shots exchanged between the Confederates and the Union.
Confederates fired the first shots of the war on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter located in the harbor of Charleston, NC.
The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, SC
South Carolina
at Fort Sumter................
South Carolina.