None. Sumter was the first action of the war.
Some have liked to describe the events of Bleeding Kansas, or John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry as the 'first shots of the war', but this is figurative writing.
South Carolina
No, they did not surrender. This was the first battle of the Civil War which took place in South Carolina in 1861.
Apart from the Fort Sumter bombardment and a few skirmishes in Western Virginia, the first battle proper was First Bull Run (Manassas), July 1861, won by the Confederates. But neither army had been anywhere near ready for combat - which was the chief lesson of the battle.
The first Battle of Manassas or First Bull Run was the first large scale major action of the US Civil War. The first land battle however was the Battle of Philippi in what was then still Virginia. It was fought June 23, 1861. A naval bombardment of Confederate land artillery batteries by US Navy gunboats took place at Sewells Point, Virginia, May 18-19, 1861 making it the first battle of the war after Sumter.
The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter directly led to the US Civil War in 1861. The Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863 was a significant battle and in 1864, Union General Sherman began his March to the Sea after he captured Atlanta, Georgia. With that said, these three events came in the previously described order.
South Carolina
No, they did not surrender. This was the first battle of the Civil War which took place in South Carolina in 1861.
The first battle of the Civil War was the bombardment of Fort Sumter in the Charleston Roads, fought on April 12,1861.
Fort Sumter in SC.
Fort Sumter
Apart from the Fort Sumter bombardment and a few skirmishes in Western Virginia, the first battle proper was First Bull Run (Manassas), July 1861, won by the Confederates. But neither army had been anywhere near ready for combat - which was the chief lesson of the battle.
Fort Sumter. Also in the Upper Mississippi, there was Island Number Ten.
The Civil War Battle of Fort Sumter took place April 12-14 of 1861. The location of the battle was Charleston County, South Carolina.
the fall of Fort Sumter was on April 13, 1861 (:
April 1861
Fort Sumter is located in the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.
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