The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American ...

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Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on ...

1861: Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War. 1873: Members of the pro-White, paramilitary White League ...

Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation slid into civil war over sectional issues. Nevertheless, it became the “flashpoint for the Civil War in 1861” (p. xi). With the secession of ...