Tag: Louis Wigfall

There had been talk that, if a civil war began, it would begin at Fort Sumter. Sat in the harbor near Charleston, South Carolina, it was a fort that the United States held. Indeed, it was here that the first shots of the war would be fired. It was one thing to read about the events reported in the newspaper—focusing on the result: its surrender—but something else altogether to read an account from someone in the fort. Years later, Abner Doubleday wrote of his experience, in Fort Sumter, from the bombardment to its surrender on April 14, 1861.