What, and who were the people involved in the Battle at Fort Sumter? Please give details, about who was there

Question

If you know plain information that will help too. I need this by 8:00 pm tonight.

Answer 1

There were two combats at Fort Sumter. The first has been discussed above, but during 1863 the Federal forces tried to capture Charleston from the sea - and Fort Sumter got mangled in the fighting by long range artillery.

Answer 2

In 1861 Major Robert Anderson 3 other officers and 124 men were detailed with the maintenance of the Federal Forts at Charleston, South Carolina. As South Carolina votes to secede from the Union Maj.Anderson moves his troops to Fort Sumter a new fort in the center of Charleston Harbor as a safety measure for his command.

As more states secede the pressure on Maj Anderson increases.
Maj Anderson begins to mount the guns at Ft. Sumter. By March 1851 there are about 7,000 Southern troops in Charleston when the Lincoln Administration tried to resupply the Sumter Garrison before they renew stalled talks with the South. This is seen in the South as an attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter, which it was, and fire upon the resupply ship. The South emboldened by the retreat of the ship makes more demands against the fort and the Confederate Government orders that the fort be given an ultimatum to surrender or be fired upon. At 5:00 AM 13 April 1861 Confederate Forces open fire and begin to bombard the fort at 7:00 AM Ft Sumter fires back, causing a southern gentleman to say "Thank God , I thought that they would never fire." Southern fort and Ft Sumter fire at each other until 12:30 PM when Anderson USA Surrenders Fort Sumter to Brig Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard after fire threatens the magazine at Ft Sumter. The Next day as the garrison of Ft Sumter are marched away the sent North the Northern Garrison fires a salute to the Stars and Stripes and during it a gun on the parapet explodes and kills one man Private Daniel Houge . The only man killed at the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861.

That in a nutshell is the 1st battle of Fort Sumter.

Answer 3

Bruce Canton did a fascinating review of the misconceptions about the battle in his book Reflections on the Civil War. The North used it as a reason for starting the Civil War, but he claims the south had a good reason for believing the North had started the Civil War. Basically the south fired 8,000 artillary shells over the top of the fort, but didn't hit it even once. The killing was done when the fort commander decided to surrender the fort and fired off a fireworks blast of his own, accidentally touching off their own ammo dump, and several of his own men were killed. The headlines stated, FORT SUMTER ATTACKED SEVERAL MEN DEAD, didn't tell the true story. The North used it as a reason for starting the civil war. Read Bruce's book.