Where was the opening conflict of the US Civil War?

Answer 1

Fort Sumter, a naval attack on the ground based Fort Sumter, is generally considered the first active engagement of the War. It is not clear who fired the first round- it was commemorated by a U.S Stamp showing a large artillery piece.( it is not clear from the sketch if this is a land-based ( Big Bertha) in the fort or a Naval Cannon. as coastal defense fortifications were intended to counter Battle ships- they often mounted Naval Guns such as Dahlgrens, Rodmans, etc. just the stuff for the Army-Navy Rivalry. there were, for example basically Naval cannon adapted to ground mounts used in Corregidor and the Concrete Battleship- Fort Drum, in the Philippines. These Guns were tested by the Army at Fort Hancock ( they had a cannon named Maximum John!) then shipped to the Philippines- this done well before war II. so it goes. it is not possible due to communications difficulties to accurately ascertain the LAST battle of the Civil War which many have been a Naval engagement- no radio telegraphy in that period.

Answer 2

The bombardment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The battle for Fort Sumter in South Carolina is where the seeds of a rebellion by Confederate states developed into a war.

Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later. Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back.

Answer 3

There are differences of opinion on the first battle of the US Civil War. One reason for this is that the "war" was considered to be a rebellion in 1861. Based on "significance" the first battle of Bull Run can in some circles to be the real first battle. The attack on Fort Sumter is also considered the 1st battle, however, it was not a "battle" it was a surrender based on the hopeless position of the Fort.

Answer 4

It can be correctly said the the armed conflict that soon thereafter became known as the US Civil War was the bombardment of the Federal Fort Sumter that was positioned in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. By using armed force against the United States, US President Lincoln took the temporary measure of calling for 75,000 volunteers to end the Southern rebellion. In May of 1861, the Confederate Congress recognized that a state of war existed between the Confederacy and the Untied States. For legal purposes the US Supreme Court ruled that in July of 1861, when President Lincoln asked the US Congress for funding and for up to 400,000 troops, this was the beginning of the armed conflict called by many names but most often referred to as the US Civil War.

Answer 5

The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in April of 1861, was the assault that soon led to the US Civil War. The fort was forced to surrender, and it gave US President Lincoln the authority to call for 75,000 volunteers to end the rebellion in the South.