Fort Sumter: Anvil of war : Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina - Staff of Publisher

Fort Sumter: Anvil of war : Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina by Staff of Publisher

Format: Saddle Stitched

Published by The Division, 1984

Early on the morning of April 12, 1861, a mortar shell fired from Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor burst almost directly over Fort Sumter, inaugurating the tragic American Civil War. Two years later, Fort Sumter, now in Confederate hands, became the focus of a gallant defense in which determined Confederate soldiers kept Federal land and naval forces at bay for 587 days. The "first shot" of 1861 and the Confederate defense of 1863-65 are the subject of this booklet.

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