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Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Name: Bombardment of Fort Sumter – United States factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

United States · Warfare / Civil War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1861Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1861

Abraham Lincoln4 December 1861

Charleston Harbor · Warfare / Civil War

Confederate artillery opens fire on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter

Names involved

Abraham Lincoln

Provenance

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