APRIL 14, 1861:
Major Anderson formally surrenders Fort Sumter to the
Confederates since his supplies and ammunition are nearly exhausted and the
fort is disintegrating under Confederate cannon fire.
Four thousand shells are
fired at the fort but only a few minor injuries are sustained by the garrison. No one is killed during the battle itself, but
Private Daniel Hough U.S.A., is killed, and Private Edward Galloway U.S.A., is
mortally wounded when one of Fort Sumter’s cannons explodes during the
surrender ceremony. The cannon is being fired in during a salute to the
lowering of the U.S. flag.
Hough becomes the first of 700,000 Americans to die
in the Civil War. The garrison is then evacuated by the U.S. Navy vessels sent
to re-provision the fort.
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