Fort sumter
Civil War Project
Fort Sumter
Robert Anderson
P.G.T. Beauregard
General P.G.T. Beauregard (National Archives)
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and first prominent general for the Confederacy. Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War. Following an extremely brief tenure as the superintendent of the Military Academy in 1861, he became the first Confederate brigadier general and commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Battle Facts
Union = 80 Men
Confederate = 500 Men
Union Casualties
0 Killed
0 Wounded
0 Missing & Captured
Confederate Casualties
0 killed
0 Wounded
0 Missing & Captured
War Outcome
On Saturday, April 13, Anderson surrendered the fort. Incredibly, no soldiers were killed in battle. The generous terms of surrender, however, allowed Anderson to perform a 100-gun salute before he and his men evacuated the fort the next day. The salute began at 2:00 P.M. on April 14,
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