Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code CB063060 when the truth was that

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Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code CB063060 when the truth was thatDefence 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.