The Confederates did not need to fire on Fort Sumter. Their impatience and short sightedness, caused them it engage in the conflict. The South was not ready to fight a war of independence in April of 1861 and should have refrained from giving US President Lincoln grounds for calling up 75,000 volunteers to handle the rebellion.
At Fort Sumter on April 11, 1861
Prior to the battle for Fort Sumter in April of 1861, the Confederacy has take over sixteen federal forts. In each case, the Union commanders surrendered and no shots were fired.
Fort Sumter
The first gun shot taken in the Civil War was by Confederate cannons while they bombed Fort Sumter in April of 1861. For legal reasons, the US Supreme Court ruled that the conflict between the US and the rebelling Southern states began in July of 1861. Certainly the first cannon shots that brought about the US Civil War were at Fort Sumter.
The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, a US army garrison on a tiny island in Charleston Harbour. on April 12th 1861.
Fort Sumter in April of 1861, refused to surrender to Confederate forces. As a result of this, Rebel artillery fired the first shots at the fort on April 12, 1861. The Confederate General PT Beauregard was commanded to begin the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
April 12, 1861.
April 12, 1861 southern troops began the first shots of the war in Charleston harbor of Ft. Sumter.
at Fort Sumter................
on april 9th 1861 at fort sumter south carolina
April 12th 1861 - first shots of the Civil War.
Ft. Sumter , Charleston, SC, April 12, 1861
At Fort Sumter on April 11, 1861
The first shot's credited to the start of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina were the Confederate military attacked the fort.Fort sumpter
Yes at Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 when the Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter.
the first shots of the war was fired at Fort Sumter