The Strategic Importance of Fort Sumter in the Civil War

On April 12, 1861, the United States Civil War began when Confederate forces began a bombardment of the Union held Fort Sumter at the mouth of the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina.

The battle was not itself a great battle, and the number of casualties was shockingly small, but what it began totally changed the lives of millions of people and the course of the United States. 

Learn more about the Battle of Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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