"Suffice to say, they miscalculated hugely." " the Southerners thought that they would be able to drive the Yankees off of Confederate territory, and the North would feel like it wasn't worthwhile to fight to bring the South back into the Union," says Goodheart. On Fresh Air, historian Adam Goodheart explains how national leaders and ordinary citizens responded to the chaos and uncertainty in the days and months before and after the struggle at Fort Sumter, an almost-bloodless two-day battle that became the start of the Civil War almost by mistake. It would take the Union army nearly four years to bring the coastal fortification back under its command. Less than two days later, Fort Sumter surrendered. The first shots of the American Civil War were fired 150 years ago in the Charleston, S.C., harbor.
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