they were all devastated and went into a small depression but recurred fast
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To assert their sovereignty over South Carolina.
The fort was under union control before it was attacked by the south (south Carolina) and began the civil war.
The Battle of Fort Sumter ws April 12-13 1861
it was a surprise attack because Lincoln told the Confederacy that he was sending food for his men but the south attacked them. ^- The south asked them to leave repeatedly. even said they would attack them if they wouldn't go, the people in fort sumter said they would leave if they didn't recive supplies. THEN lincoln sent them supplies. No it wasn't a surprise attack. they knew it was coming.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas were the first seven states to leave the Union before Fort Sumter was bombarded.