Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
NRHP reference No.
66000101[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
October 15, 1966
Designated HD
April 28, 1948 (1948-April-28)
Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion. It was built after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack. The fort was still incomplete in 1861 when the Battle of Fort Sumter occurred, sparking the American Civil War. It was severely damaged during the battle and left in ruins. Although there were some efforts at reconstruction after the war, the fort as conceived was never completed. Since the middle of the 20th century, Fort Sumter has been open to the public as part of the Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, operated by the National Park Service.
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The FortSumter Flag is a historic United States flag with a distinctive, diamond-shaped pattern of 33 stars. When the main flagpole was felled by a shot...
The Second Battle of FortSumter was fought on September 8, 1863, in Charleston Harbor. Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard, who had commanded the...
FortSumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Charleston County, in coastal South Carolina...
in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at FortSumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the...
The FortSumter House is a seven-story condominium building located at 1 King St., Charleston, South Carolina, originally built as the FortSumter Hotel...
general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of FortSumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting...
seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. The war began when on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on FortSumter in South Carolina's...
increasingly around newly created FortSumter. By the time of the American Civil War, Fort Moultrie, FortSumter, Fort Johnson, and Castle Pinckney surrounded...
President of the United States in 1860 and culminating in the capture of FortSumter in April 1861. Scholars have identified many different causes for the...
went off prematurely during a salute to the flag after the Battle of FortSumter. He was an Irish immigrant, having been born in County Tipperary. Daniel...
Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734 – June 1, 1832) was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general...
against secession on April 4, 1861. Opinion shifted after the Battle of FortSumter on April 12, and April 15, when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called...
War began on April 12, 1861, when the South Carolina militia attacked FortSumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolinians wanted...
However, the bombardment of FortSumter would continue in general until December 31, 1863. Gillmore's attention returned to Fort Wagner. By now his forces...
was even formed, but didn’t officially do so until after the fall of FortSumter when public opinion throughout the state drastically shifted. Tennessee...
began weeks into Lincoln's presidency with the Confederate attack on FortSumter, a federal installation located within the boundaries of the Confederacy...
object. "Raising the Flag at FortSumter" was a ceremony—a newspaper called it a "performance"—that took place at FortSumter, in the harbor of Charleston...
the fort or to reduce it. The commander of the fort, Major Robert Anderson, refused to surrender, and Beauregard began the attack on FortSumter early...
strategic naval artillery platform that took part in the bombardment of FortSumter on April 12 and April 13, 1861, making it the first floating battery...
given credit for "firing the first shot of the war" at the Battle of FortSumter in April 1861 and fought as a Confederate soldier despite his advanced...
the U.S. Naval Academy possesses the flag. FortSumter Flag (1861) – During the bombardment of FortSumter in April 1861, the flagpole was hit by artillery...
pieces that were to bombard FortSumter was completed by August 16, 1863, and firing began the next day. By August 23, FortSumter was a ruin. 5,009 projectiles...
for the state's occupation of the harbor of Charleston and the federal FortSumter. The new Confederate government took over this operation in February...
to reach $800. In April 1861, the Civil War began with the Battle of FortSumter in nearby Charleston Harbor. In the fall of 1861, Smalls was assigned...
Unionists and abolitionists called themselves "Minute Men". The conflict at FortSumter had occurred on April 12–13, one week before the riot. At the time, Virginia...
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