Baron's Ft. Sumter BM GC

The mission of this BM GC is to remind everyone that the Civil War was initially fought over states' rights. The fact that it turned into a war to abolish slavery is just and valid - it needed to be done away with long before that. Not everyone proud of their Southern heritage is proud of slavery.

Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later. Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back. Being the first battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Sumter has more to it than just the battle. There was much involved in provoking the battle and it lasted longer than most of the battles of the Civil War. On December 26, Robert Anderson moved to the incomplete Fort Sumter in the middle of the Charleston Harbor. Anderson's position grew very dangerous when Confederate gun fire stopped his relief ship the "Star of the West" from getting into the harbor. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, gave orders to Pierre P.T. Beauregard to take the fort shortly after Lincoln decided to supply it. A few hours before dawn a group of Southerners rowed out to the fort to order its surrender. Anderson refused and at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861 the Confederates began the first battle of the Civil War. Finally, after thirty-four hours of the fort being bombarded and many buildings being burnt inside the fort, Anderson and his men capitulated and were allowed to leave. There were no casualties until after the fight when a freak explosion killed two Union soldiers during their hundred-gun salute to their lowered flag. Go to (visit link) for more information. This is a pewter BM GC with red stones to denote the individual BMs located at the site.