Fort Sumter National Monument in November 2004
Battleground Inventory Data
- Contributor:
- Bias, Mark (Mark's Photo (Huntington, WV)) Photographer
- Contributor:
- NPS Office of the Chief Information Officer. National Information Systems Center. Information Services Division Sponsor
- Publisher:
- U.S. National Park Service
- Is Part Of:
- Civil War Heritage Digital Collection
- Is Part Of:
- Civil War Heritage Assets Digital Collection
- Is Part Of:
- Civil War Monuments and Markers Digital Collection
- Note:
- Fort Sumter is 5-sided, 1-story brick fort built on a man-made island in Charleston Harbor. Battery Huger bisects the fort with the parade and barracks ruins on the west side and earth fill level with the tops of the walls on the east side.
- Note:
- Fort Sumter is nationally significant. It was bombarded by the Confederates in the opening battle of the Civil War (April 12-13, 1861) and is representative of early-19th-century Third System coastal defenses.
- Subject:
- Forts -- 19th century
- Subject:
- Siege of Fort Sumter, S.C., April 12-14, 1861
- Subject:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Park Name:
- Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie
- Place:
- South Carolina -- Charleston Harbor -- Fort Sumter National Monument
Lat: 32.7534300
Long: -79.8752100 - Park code:
- FOSU
- Summary:
- Related To:
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System