Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle at Fort Sumter was the event that triggered the start of the Civil War. Fort Sumter was located on an island in the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The northern army kept hold of the fort, which they needed to be resupplied with things like more food and ammunition. This was not appealing to South Carolina that Fort Sumter was being held by the Union, so they wouldn't let them resupply it. The northern army refused when the Confederates called for evacuation of the fort. The Confederates opened fire. Eventually, the Union army surrendered and the Confederates captured the fort and won. This would officially start the Civil War. The Confederate states started forming when South Carolina was the first state to secede.
"What a change now greets us! The Government is aroused, the dead North is alive, and its divided people united...The cry now is for war, vigorous war, war to the bitter end, and war till the traitors are effectually and permanently put down."
- Frederick Douglass
An important person during the Battle of Fort Sumter was General Robert Anderson. He was one of the first two people to fight in the Civil War. His passion was for the South, and he fought strongly for the Union. He also was very adamantly against slavery. After the defeat at Fort Sumter, he surrendered. Yet between other battles in the war, he recaptured Fort Sumter for the Union.