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Battle of Fort Sumter. Events leading to. The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12â14, 1861) was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War.
Best Answer: Fort Sumter was one of two federal ports in the southern United States. Soon after the election of 1860 seven southern states succeeded from the Union. President Lincoln declared that the Union would hold on to these two ports after the succession.hen they refused General Beauregard attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. On April 13, 1861, Fort Sumter was captured by the Confederacy and on April 14, 1861 Major Robert Anderson surrendered to the Confederacy.