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Fort Sumter: How Civil War Began With a Bloodless Battle

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« on: April 23, 2011, 05:21:38 pm »



Fort Sumter Under Heavy Bombardment

Image Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Harper’s Weekly ran its story on the battle with this pair of illustrations: The top shows the classic scene of Sumter under heavy bombardment while the lower panel offers a somewhat fanciful interpretation of what it looked like across the harbor in a Confederate battery.

In reality, return fire coming from Fort Sumter was largely ineffective and not nearly as dangerous as the illustration suggests. Neither side had a soldier killed by enemy fire despite all the shot and shell filling the air.

Updated April 12, 2011
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