Because it was a US Army garrison on an island in Charleston harbour.
The Confederates wanted to assert their sovereignty over the whole of South Carolina. The Union refused to recognise the Confederacy, and wanted to assert their rights over the island and its garrison.
General PGT Beauregard.the commander of fort Sumter was Robert Anderson
Beauregard was a Confederate. In Charleston, he ordered the artillery to fire the first shots of the war, at the island garrison of Fort Sumter.
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.
The USA - soon to be known as 'The Union' for the duration of the war - which did not recognise the newly-formed Confederate States of America.The CSA wanted to assert its sovereignty over the island fortress, as it was in Charleston Harbour, and therefore part of South Carolina, a Confederate state. Their action in firing on Sumter is taken as the start of the war.South Carolina declared its secession from the United States on December 20, 1860. At this time, Fort Sumter was a Union fort in the Charleston harbor.
Lincoln decided to send supplies to Charleston in the first week of April. When the federal relief expedition arrived at Fort Sumter on April 12, Confederate forces opened fire, and the undermanned and unprepared federal troops were forced to surrender the next day.
confederate soldier fire on union troops in fort sumter.
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In the April 1861 the battle of Fort Sumter led to the Union's surrender of the fort to Confederate forces.
The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter signed the outbreak of the American Civil War-.
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Sumter was a tiny Union enclave in the harbour of a Confederate city within a Confederate state.
General P.G.T. Beauregard was the commanding general of the Confederate troops at the Battle of Fort Sumter. The Union was led by Major Robert Anderson.
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The United States of America and the Confederate States of America.