April 12th 1861
Fort Sumter in SC.
The Battle for Fort Sumter took place 12 April 1861
the First Battle of Bull Run
* * ====== Fort Sumter was reshaped Shells/Bullets were on the floor Dead People were on the floor
South Carolina
No, they did not surrender. This was the first battle of the Civil War which took place in South Carolina in 1861.
It was the opening battle of the US Civil War in which the South took the Fort.
Fort Sumter. Also in the Upper Mississippi, there was Island Number Ten.
Fort Sumter
Off the coast of South Carolina.
During the Battle of Fort Sumter, which took place from April 12 to April 14, 1861, there were approximately 85 Union troops stationed at the fort. The Confederate forces, under General P.G.T. Beauregard, besieged the fort, leading to its surrender. The battle marked the beginning of the American Civil War.
Apart from the Fort Sumter bombardment and a few skirmishes in Western Virginia, the first battle proper was First Bull Run (Manassas), July 1861, won by the Confederates. But neither army had been anywhere near ready for combat - which was the chief lesson of the battle.