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Fort Sumter Fort Sumter Aerial View Antique map of South Carolina from 1902, showing county borders, towns, railroads, rivers, and major roads across the state. An inset in the lower left details Charleston, its harbor, and surrounding areas, with streets and waterways labeled. The map has a beige background and fine black and red detailing typical of early 20th-century atlases. Fort Sumter American Civil War: secession Map of the United States during the Civil War, color-coded to show Union free states, Union slave states, Confederate states that seceded before and after April 1861, and West Virginia, which joined the Union in 1863. The map also marks federal and unorganized Indian territories, with the Confederacy highlighted in green and border slave states in orange. P.G.T. Beauregard Abraham Lincoln: inauguration
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54th Massachusetts Regiment. "Storming Fort Wagner," by Kurz & Allison, c. 1890. Depicts the assault on the S.C. fort on 7/18/1863. American Civil War, 54th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, 1st all African-American regiment, black soldiers, black history
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Battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, lithograph by Kurz and Allison, circa 1888.
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Battle of Fort Sumter: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: NCpedia - ANCHOR - Fort Sumter. Oct 27, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Military History Encyclopedia on the Web - Siege of Fort Sumter, (April 12Β–13, 1861). May 13, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - "The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War. Apr 02, 2025
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - The History of Fort Sumter. Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter. Jan 09, 2025
Add new Web site: The Washington Post - Attack on Fort Sumter marked start of war. Sep 30, 2024
Corrected display issue. Apr 19, 2024
Add new Web site: United States History - Fort Sumter. Feb 01, 2024
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Fort Sumter: How Civil War Began With a Bloodless Battle. Nov 25, 2023
Add new Web site: NCpedia - ANCHOR - Fort Sumter. Sep 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Fort Sumter and the Coming of the War. Jul 20, 2023
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Battle of Fort Sumter, April 1861. Jan 20, 2023
Add new Web site: American History Central - The Battle of Fort Sumter οΏ½ The First Battle of the American Civil War. Feb 06, 2018
New article added. Nov 29, 2017
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