Robert Anderson was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confedera
Anderson, c. 1861
Major Robert Anderson and his officers Ft Sumpter South Carolina
Major Robert Anderson, photo by Mathew Brady
Robert Anderson's telegram announcing the surrender of Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter is an incomplete sea fort at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where the battle that sparked the American Civil War took place. Built on an artificial island in 1829 in respo
Robert Anderson (Union officer)
…sympathetic to the South, was selected. Anderson moved the garrison from Fort Moultrie, which was indefensible, to the more modern and more defensible Fort Sumter, in the middle of Charleston Harbor, an action which caused great consternation in South Carolina, which responded by taking Fort Moultrie and the other…
View from north in 2009
Fort Sumter was photographed in 1861 when it was still intact.
Letter from William H. Seward advising President Lincoln on the obstacles in resupplying Fort Sumter, March 1861