Ft. Sumter Falls

In April Lincoln announced he wanted to resupply Fort Sumter. But President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, didnt like the idea of federal troops in the South's most important harbor. Lincoln warned them, that they would fire at the supply ship if necessary. But they knew this would lead to war with the United States. But avoiding that thought, Davis decided to take Fort Sumter, he thought this might keep the peace. But then Confederate leaders delivered a letter to Major Robert Anderson telling him to surrender on the morning of April 12, 1861. But then the cannon was shot, and Confederate forces were bombarded at Fort Sumter for 33 hours. It wrecked the fort, but no one was killed, until Anderson and his tired men surrendered. This was the start of the Civil War.