Talk:Fort Sumter

message: Union attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison were repulsed on January 9, 1861 when the first shots of the war, fired by cadets from the Citadel, prevented the steamer Star of the West, hired to transport troops and supplies to Fort Sumter, from completing the task.
:Why are these not generally quoted as the first shots of the war, instead of the attack on April 12th? Valetude (talk) 15:35, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First shots? 

message: One Union soldier died and another was mortally wounded
: Presumably, these were the first Union deaths of the war  -  on operational service, even though not in action. Are their names known? Valetude (talk) 13:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  For the record-books 

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message: It seems odd that there's nothing in the article about the lead-up to the Battle of Fort Sumter, strategy and significance to the secession movement, nor the mobilization of confederate forces for assault. The assault of Fort Sumter was a deliberate attempt to instigate conflict with US forces in order to provoke a military response that would push border states to secession, per Roger Pryor's journey to Charleston and speech at the time. In advance of the battle, the confederate government called up militia, forced the surrender and evacuation of all other federal officials (Lincoln's Inaugural Address mentions that he won't challenge the loss of all post offices in states trying to succeed), seized federal munitions and forced the surrender of Castle Pinckney, and a confederate force of about 6,000 was besieging/blockading the fort.
 
This article seems to fail the NPOV test. It barely mentions confederate forces, implying that Anderson abandoned Moultrie for no reason and that US forces were starved without participation of a besieging force. It uses passive voice to obscure that the base was threatened by an approaching army. In truth, South Carolina mobilized militias immediately following secession, a force of 6,000 had taken Moultrie and trained guns on the fort. I would expect to find this framing in a book about "The War of Northern Aggression" but not on Wikipedia. Aharriso (talk) 14:43, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead-up and Questions about NPOV? 

message: So ummm just change 1812 to 1813, cause at the time it was closer to 1813, like duh lol please read thiis I Don't English (talk) 17:43, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 April 2022 

message: In the section about the First Battle of Fort Sumter, this article says, "A Confederate soldier bled to death having been wounded by a misfiring cannon." Do we have any sources about this?
I looked through the reference linked earlier in the paragraph, Allegiance by David Detzer, and couldn't find any mention of this event, even though Detzer does mention the accidental death of a Confederate soldier related to a bayonet before the battle on page 196, and Detzer goes into great detail about the process, liabilities, and dangers of preparing and firing cannons, especially on pages 260-263 and 291. There's a Union Sergeant named Thomas Kirnan who bled from but survived a purposeful Confederate cannon shot during the battle on page 275, and on pages 196-197, a Confederate cannon accidentally shot a cannonball before the battle and hit no-one. These are the closest incidents to what this article describes, but I don't think the article is referring to any of them.
I also couldn't find any references to such an event on the Wikipedia page for the Battle of Fort Sumter, which states in the info box that "0" Confederate casualties or losses occurred, and the 1861 New York Times article it cites for that number doesn't seem to mention it happening, either.
Also, it's hard to tell from this section whether the death happened before, during, or after the battle, so hopefully an edit with a source would clarify this as well. Present Individual (talk) 22:01, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "A Confederate soldier bled to death"?