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Fort Sumter known as the "Genesis of the Civil War" was in the middle of south Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Sumter was a fort held by Union soldiers when confederates attacked. Fresh off being inaugurated as president Lincoln recieved a message from "Major Robert Anderson (commmander of Union troops at Fort Sumter) stating that there was less than six weeks supply of food left in the fort." Lincoln replied by sending food to the fort, thus angering confederate commanders as they opened fire on the fort. Union Soldiers fought back with what ammunition they had. On April 13, 1861 the union soldiers surrendered to Louis T. Wigfall a former U.S. Senator from Texas. The attack on Fort Sumter was the beginning of the bloodiest and most brutal war known to America the CIVIL WAR.



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