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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.
The site of Fort Sill was staked out on 8 January 1869 (factual evidence of actual date needed), by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, who led a campaign into Indian Territory to stop hostile tribes from raiding border settlements in Texas and Kansas.oday, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the Southern Plains built during the Indian Wars.