{"id":73841,"date":"2024-04-12T02:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=73841"},"modified":"2024-04-12T02:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:24:40","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/on-this-day-in-history-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73842 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter-1024x604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter-850x502.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/battle-of-fort-sumter.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/photos\/battle-of-fort-sumter?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=newsletter\">Battle of Fort Sumter<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The first battle of the war took place at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, which had been the first state to seceded the union. After a long period of shortages in the fort due to a Confederate blockade, the first crisis of Lincoln&#8217;s administration was to resupply the fort. After an ultimatum from the South to evacuate the fort was ignored, Confederate forces attacked on April 12, 1861, beginning the civil war.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>Related Events:<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"event-list event-list\">\n<li class=\"event\">\n<h2><a class=\"date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/date\/1861\/january\/9\">1861-01-09<\/a>\u00a0A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon by cadets from the South Carolina Military Academy as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; considered to be the first shots fired in US Civil War<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"event\">\n<h2><a class=\"date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/date\/1861\/april\/12\">1861-04-12<\/a>\u00a0Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil War<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"event\">\n<h2><a class=\"date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/date\/1861\/april\/13\">1861-04-13<\/a>\u00a0After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates (US Civil War)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"event\">\n<h2><a class=\"date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/date\/1861\/april\/14\">1861-04-14<\/a>\u00a0Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter (US Civil War)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of Fort Sumter &nbsp; The first battle of the war took place at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, which had been the first state to seceded the union. After a long period of shortages in the fort due to a Confederate blockade, the first crisis of Lincoln&#8217;s administration was to resupply the fort&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,8448,478,479,9995],"tags":[17283,1880,8798,9606],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73844,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73841\/revisions\/73844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}