Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. In 1966, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Read more about Fort Sumter: Construction, Civil War, After The War, Fort Sumter National Monument
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“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)