Fort+Sumter

Fort sumter was built in your very own virginia And It was in jamestown VA. The men used this fort wnen they were in battle and they used many other forts but fort sumter was the main one.-

Fort Sumter, named after a South Carolina Revolutionary War hero, was designed as part of a defensive system for Charleston Harbor. Plans were drawn in 1827, and construction began two years later. Located on a man-made island of sea shells and granite from northern quarries, it was a pentagonal structure, fifty feet high, with walls eight to twelve feet thick.

As of Lincoln's election, the fort remained uncompleted and without readied armament. A crew of workmen directed by an army engineer was engaged in completing the fort under a recent congressional appropriation act. After occupying the fort on Decemb er 26, 1860, Major Robert Anderson set troops and workmen to the task of strengthening his position.

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