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Fort Sumter is in Charleston South Carolina.
The commander of the Union garrison on Fort Sumter (a small island in Charleston Harbour) was Major Anderson. The local Confederate commander in Charleston was General P.G.T. Beauregard. At this tense moment, both were under close supervision of their respective presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Fort Sumter, when Confederate artillery fired on a US Army garrison on this small island in Charleston harbour, to assert sovereignty over South Carolina.
The US Civil War was started by attack on Federal Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Sumter had to surrender & President Lincoln took his first steps to aid Fort Sumter & to prepare to defend Federal forts and other Federal property located in the "South".
Fort Sumter was a fort back when Lincoln was president.
Fort Sumter "is" in Charleston, South Carolina.
no it is not in Sumter. it is in Charleston harbor South Carolina.
Charleston is much bigger, as it is a southern city; Sumter is a fort at the entrance to Charleston harbor, South Carolina
The Battle of Fort Sumter began and ended at Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina.
Fort Sumter is in Charleston, South Carolina.
Forced Lincoln to demonstrate that he did not recognise the rights of the Confederacy over this small island-fort in Charleston harbour. Lincoln called for volunteer-troops, and the war was on.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. Surrender cermony at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor.
Fort Sumter is in Charleston South Carolina.
First shots of the war. Lincoln had declared that he would hold the Union garrison on the tiny island of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour. The Confederate artillery fired on it, and it surrendered. Lincoln reacted by calling for 75,000 volunteer troops. The war was officially on.
The commander of the Union garrison on Fort Sumter (a small island in Charleston Harbour) was Major Anderson. The local Confederate commander in Charleston was General P.G.T. Beauregard. At this tense moment, both were under close supervision of their respective presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
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To assert Confederate sovereignty over Charleston Harbour as part of South Carolina.