The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the beginning of the American Civil War. The assault led to the fort's surrender and galvanized public opinion in the North, resulting in increased enlistment in the Union Army. Additionally, it prompted several Southern states to secede from the Union, solidifying the divide between the North and South. This event also intensified the existing tensions over slavery and states' rights.
Confederate artillery, under their local commander P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from the Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
The first attack of the Civil War was on April 12-13 at Fort Sumter in Charleston County South Carolina. Result: Confederate victory.
It was an American attack on a confederate military base.
To assert their sovereignty over South Carolina.
The Battle of Fort Sumter ws April 12-13 1861
The attack of fort. sumpter
The confederates
1860
Fort Sumpter, South Carolina.
Fort Sumpter
Ft. Sumpter was a Federal installation in a newly-Confederate State (South Carolina).
1861
Fort Sumpter was in South Carolina.. I THINK
1861
Confederate army
1861
Because it was in Charleston Harbour, and they wanted to assert that the whole of South Carolina was Confederate territory.