Fort Sumter
The battle of fort sumter was the first battle of the civil war. It wasn't the bloodiest battle of the civil war, yet it was the starting point. No one died besides a confederate horse. Lots of damage was conflicted upon the fort.
Fort Sumter was built at the wake of the war of 1812(1812-1815). Yet the official construction was in 1829 in Charleston Harbor, south Carolina, on a manmade island built from thousands of tons of granite. There was a halt in the building durning the 1830's and didn't resume until 8141. The construction slowed in 1859 due to a lack of funding. By 1860 the island and out fortifications were complete, but the interior remained unfinished.
Fort Sumter was built at the wake of the war of 1812(1812-1815). Yet the official construction was in 1829 in Charleston Harbor, south Carolina, on a manmade island built from thousands of tons of granite. There was a halt in the building durning the 1830's and didn't resume until 8141. The construction slowed in 1859 due to a lack of funding. By 1860 the island and out fortifications were complete, but the interior remained unfinished.
The battle
Construction of Fort sumter was still underway when south Carolina seceded from the union on December 20th, 1860. At the time the fort was only guared by two companies of us troops commanded by Major Robert Anderson(1805-1871). Major Robert Anderson elected to abandon the fort on December 26, 1860. South Carolina heard ,yet didn't seize the fort. A standoff ensued until Jan. 9, 1861, when a ship with supplies and 200 us troops that were intended for the fort. South Carolina military fired upon the vessel pushing it back out to sea. Later Lincoln sent a ship unarmed to relieve fort sumter. On April 11, militia commander P.G.T Beaurgard(1818-1893) demanded Anderson to surrender the fort, he refused again. After hearing his refusal south Carolina fired upon the fort. Finally after fighting the confederates had won and the fort was now theirs.
P.G.T Beauregrad
Born May 28, 1818, in a prominent Creole family. He grew up on a sugar cane plantation out side of New Orleans and wen to a School in New York city in his youth. In 1843 he was appointed to the US Military Academy at West Point. In 1841 he married Marie Antoinette Laure Villere, a daughter of a sugarcane planter. He was wounded durning the Mexican-American War(1847). Durning the Civil War he was a general and commanded fire on Fort Sumter. He was part of the Confederacy.