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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.
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.