Fort Sumter

This is the flag of Fort Sumter. It has 13 stripes on it that represent the original 13 colonies and 33 stars that represent the 33 states that the United States had at that time.


























This picture to the right is a painting of General Pierre Beauregard. He led the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. His attack did not kill a single soldier but about an hour before the battle a Union soldier died because a cannon exploded.















On December 26th 1861 South Carolina seceded from the
Union. The people of South Carolina chose to tell the Union that they were no longer part of the United States by attacking Fort Sumter.





Major Robert Anderson was in charge of managing Fort Sumter. The fort was in a very inconvenient spot, the middle of a harbor. That means the Confederates could surround Fort Sumter an almost all sides and then bomb it. That made it extremely hard for the Union to have a chance at winning the battle. Sure enough the Union lost and Fort Sumter was destroyed.











At the end of this battle the fort was destroyed and the Confederates had won their first fight against the Union.






























Kiel and I made this symbol because it has Fort Sumter on it and Fort Sumter
is where the Civil War started. We put a trumpet on it that announces the
civil war. In the background there is a half a confederate flag and a half a
American flag symbolizing a divided nation. All together it symbolizes the
beginning of the civil war.
The battle of Fort Sumter was the beginning of the civil war because South
Carolina was a state that had recently seceded from the union and wanted to
say they were fed up with the union, so they attacked Fort Sumter.
Brody Helmer



When Brody and I first decided to do our quilt piece on Fort Sumter, we
chose it because it was one of the first major battles of the civil war.
Manasas was the most well-known, but Fort Sumter was important because the
fort was in South Carolina, deep in the newly formed confederate territory.
Fort Sumter is on the coast of South Carolina in the bay. The confederate
army, including Brigadier General P.T Beauregard. They attacked both by boat
and from the opposite shore with cannons.By the end of the attack, Fort
Sumter was in ruins. Nobody was killed, but the union was forced to evacuate
the fort, giving away a very important base.Our quilt piece shows Fort
Sumter in the foreground and half a confederate flag and have the old USA
flag in the background symbolizing a divided nation.
I hope you find this piece very informative.
Kiel Jenkins



Posted by
Brody Helmer and Kiel Jenkins
Franks Design Team