Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard commanded the Southern forces at Fort Sumter in April of 1861. He was born in Louisiana near New Orleans May 28, 1818.
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Charleston, South Carolina, where Confederate artillery opened up on the US army garrison on the island of Fort Sumter. The Confederate commander was General P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from his President, Jefferson Davis.
US Civil War - Battle of Shiloh. Near Shiloh, Tennessee. General Ulysses S. Grant defeats confederate army.
George McLellan
Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina.
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
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Charleston, South Carolina, where Confederate artillery opened up on the US army garrison on the island of Fort Sumter. The Confederate commander was General P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from his President, Jefferson Davis.
Fort Sumter - an island garrison in Charleston Harbour, held by Union troops, and fired-on by Confederate artillery, on the orders of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
US Civil War - Battle of Shiloh. Near Shiloh, Tennessee. General Ulysses S. Grant defeats confederate army.
Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina.
The Confederate states seceded from the Union and fired the first shots.
The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter signed the outbreak of the American Civil War-.
George McLellan
On Apr. 12,1861, 4.20 am the Confederate artillery fired the first shot on Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay.
April 12, 1861, Ft. Sumter was fired upon by Confederate forces.
The Civil War. The Confederate fired on Union Fort Sumter.
The first shots were fired by Confederate artillery in Charleston on April 12th 1861.