US Civil War Begins – Fort Sumter Bombardment
Fort Sumter - Currier and Ives
It was the Spring of 1861. Trouble and dissent were brewing for months within the South and on the horizon there would be an attack that would be considered the beginning of the US Civil War. All the Federal buildings within the port city of Charleston, South Carolina had been seized, except one… Fort Sumter which lay in the middle of Charleston’s harbor.
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