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Attention was focused on the tiny Union garrison on the island of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, which the South declared to be Confederate territory.

Lincoln announced that it was Union territory, and kept it supplied by US naval vessels.

When Confederate artillery fired on it from Charleston, the war was on.

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