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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 Myer was established as Fort Whipple, after Brevet Major General Amiel Weeks Whipple, who died in May 1863, during the Civil War. It had a perimeter of 658 yards, and places for 43 guns. Whipple Field was named in his honor.