Fort Sumter

On April fourth, Lincoln called Captain Fox to the White House. He told him that the government was ready to take supplies to Fort Sumter.

And southerners expected hunger would force the soldiers to leave. But Lincoln announced he was sending a ship to Fort Sumter with food.

The battle of Fort Sumter was over. More than four-thousand shells had been fired during the thirty-three hours of fighting.

Six days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the commander of Charleston's forts decided to move his men to Fort Sumter.

Mr. O'HARA: After we fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight.

Soon after, Lincoln received word that Fort Sumter, located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, would have to be resupplied.

The shelling continued all day. A big cloud of smoke rose high in the air over Fort Sumter.

Nearly five generations have now passed since the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, and still their reverberations are being felt.

But getting food to Fort Sumter would be a very difficult job.

The Army chief, General [Winfield] Scott, warned Lincoln that it was too late to get supplies to Fort Sumter.

Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War.

Then, in April 1861, Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the war began.

On April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, Confederate soldiers fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

With war threatening, Lincoln sent armed ships to resupply Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Civil War might as easily have erupted at Fort Pickens, outside Pensacola, Florida, as at Fort Sumter.

The United States garrison at Fort Sumter was fired upon.

At the end of March, Lincoln held another cabinet meeting and again asked what should be done about Fort Sumter.

Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

This week in our series, we discuss the dispute over the federal base that was being built at Fort Sumter.

Denson follows a famous article by Charles W. Ramsdell, "Lincoln and Fort Sumter, " Journal of Southern History (1937).

He asked if Fort Sumter should be seized before supplies could arrive.

The American Civil War began when Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861.

Birdie: I never played Fort Sumter.

The attack on Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor launched the Civil War.

Margo: It was Fort Sumter they fired on.

Not even the firing on Fort Sumter in April, 1861, ended all discontent .

The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, in South Carolina, on April 12th 1861.

The coming of the Civil War, the story from roughly the mid-1840s, through Fort Sumter