Although tensions escalated with Bleeding Kansas (1854–1861) and John Brown's raid (1859), the war officially started with the Confederate secession, the attack on Fort Sumter (April 1861), and ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ...

On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

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The attack failed, but it signaled the beginning of ... Thunder in the Harbor will stand as the pivotal book on Fort Sumter , from the start of the Civil War to its end. This reviewer highly ...

Stephens’ perverse and poisonous lies encouraged terrorists three weeks later to bombard Fort Sumter, inciting the Civil War. More than 160 years later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth still ...