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Fort Sumter: How Civil War Began With a Bloodless Battle

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« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2011, 05:25:14 pm »



1863 Barrage on Fort Sumter

Image Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Confederate-held Fort Sumter faced its first major trial on April 7, 1863, when it was surrounded and hammered at close range by a squadron of federal ironclads. The fort took over 50 hits from heavy naval guns.

The barrage cratered the ramparts but didn’t seriously impair Fort Sumter’s fighting ability. The fort’s guns fired over 2,000 shells, driving off the enemy ships with enough of a beating that the vessels could not make another attack.

(See Civil War reenactment pictures.)

Updated April 12, 2011
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