Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code 42-22581665 Drawn by J

Drawn by J

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Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code 42-22581665 Drawn by JDefence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861 (c1880). Fort Sumter was the place where the opening shots of the American Civil War were fired, on 12 April 1861. The following day the Union garrison surrendered. The Confederacy then held the fort until 17th February 1865. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.