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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.
In the pre-dawn hours of April 12, Confederate forces under the command of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard unloaded on Fort Sumter from four different directions. As the National Parks tour guide explains in the video below, the fort withstood the brunt of the artillery barrage.