P.G.T. Beauregard
The Head of Confederate Forces was Beauregard.Major Robert Anderson was the commander of the US garrison at Fort Sumter.
Robert Anderson was the commanding officer for the Union during the Battle of Fort Sumter, and P. G. T. Beauregard was the Confederate commander. The battle resulted in a victory for the Confederacy.
Sumter was a tiny Union enclave in the harbour of a Confederate city within a Confederate state.
Since the commander of Fort Sumter surrendered to Confederate forces, it was a victory for the Confederacy. There was no chance to prevent Fort Sumter to remain in Union hands when it was running out of supplies and no reinforcements were able to reach the fort.
Confederate artillery commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard. The assault was ordered personally by the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis.
P.G.T. Beauregard.
Robert Anderson was the commander at Ft. Sumter .
P.G.T. Beauregard
General Beauregard
The conflict that resulted in the battle over Fort Sumter ended with the fort's Union commander, Anderson, surrendering to forces led by Confederate commander Beauregard. Anderson had little choice as all relief efforts to aid the fort by Lincoln were turned back.
In the April 1861 the battle of Fort Sumter led to the Union's surrender of the fort to Confederate forces.
Confederate forces captured Fort Sumter on Saturday, April 13, 1861.