num_pages: 412
description: On April 12 1861 Fort Sumter was fired on by the Confederate batteries located around the Charleston Harbor. Within thirty-four hours the fort had surrendered. From that moment on the recapturing of Fort Sumter became one of the Union's most important objectives. Nearly four years elapsed before the Northern forces were successful. The Siege of Charleston provides the complete history of those four important years in the history of the Civil War.
language: English
title: The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865
publisher: University of South Carolina Press