Members of the Virginia Senate are elected every four years by the voters of the 40 senatorial districts on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November. The last election took place in November 2011.
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.
Five miles to the east is Fort Sumter, famously known as the site of the Civil Warâs first exchanges of gunfire. Though construction of the island fort started in 1829, it was still unfinished when the war broke out in 1861, with Union forces having only half their designated cannons in place.