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Revision as of 03:15, January 7, 2008
Fort Sumter is a fort near Charleston, South Carolina that is best known as the site of the first shots fired during the Civil War. Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered the Union-held fort to be shelled on April 12, 1861, and the Union forces who were camped there, led by Major Robert Anderson, surrendered two days later. Anderson did manage to retain the American flag which had flown over Fort Sumter, and it became a major patriotic symbol used to rally pro-Union crowds up north. The Union managed to retake Fort Sumter in February, 1865 following General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea.
Today, Fort Sumter is a National Monument operated by the U.S. National Park Service.
