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Fort Sumter and the âStartâ of the American Civil War (Photo of the Day) Michael Levy - April 12, 2011. It was 150 years ago today, in the early morning of April 12, 1861, that the American Civil War officially began.
Fort Sumter The Battle of Fort Sumter marked the first exchange of fire in the Civil War. After seven southern states ratified their declarations of succession, the state of South Carolina demanded that Federal (United States) troops stationed at Fort Moultrie (in Charleston Harbor) abandon the fort.