Project Gutenberg 2014-10-28 Public domain in the USA. 155 Barnes, Frank 63060658 Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina United States. National Park Service. Historical handbook series, no. 12 Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina" by Frank Barnes is a historical account written in the mid-20th century, specifically in the early 1950s. This handbook provides a detailed examination of Fort Sumter, focusing on its construction, strategic significance during the Civil War, and its legacy as a symbol of national conflict. The book explores the events leading up to the bombardment of the fort in April 1861, which marked the beginning of the Civil War, and encompasses various military operations and changes in fortifications over the course of the war. In this publication, Barnes presents a chronological narrative that starts with the construction of Fort Sumter in the early 1800s and leads up to its pivotal role in the Civil War. The text covers key moments such as Major Anderson's transfer of troops to the fort, the initial bombardment by Confederate forces, and the subsequent struggles for control over Charleston Harbor. The fort experiences several bombardments and evacuations during the war, becoming a symbol of both Confederate resistance and Union determination. After the war, the book details the fort's restoration and its eventual establishment as a national monument, commemorating its significance in American history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) -- History Fort Sumter National Monument (Charleston, S.C.) E456 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - General 136500 136511 2024-09-19T16:03:29.942287 2023-09-20T12:02:17.955264 text/html text/html 130744 2014-10-27T20:15:48 text/html; charset=utf-8 2583864 2014-10-27T20:16:52 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 2816844 2024-09-19T16:03:35.748257 application/epub+zip 2818957 2024-09-19T16:03:32.172270 application/epub+zip 109213 2024-09-19T16:03:31.032305 application/epub+zip 2885273 2024-09-19T16:03:38.189253 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2851440 2024-09-19T16:03:34.487289 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 147423 2022-09-21T12:38:10.557873 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102022 2024-09-19T16:03:29.146285 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 103299 2014-10-27T20:15:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 38611 2014-10-27T20:16:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 102363 2014-10-27T20:16:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 38451 2014-10-27T20:16:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 102354 2014-10-27T20:16:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 38434 2014-10-27T20:16:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21183 2024-09-19T16:03:38.325245 application/rdf+xml 23080 2024-09-19T16:03:31.127286 image/jpeg 3289 2024-09-19T16:03:31.081289 image/jpeg 2677294 2024-09-19T16:03:30.062336 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog