The US Civil War was started by attack on Federal Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Sumter had to surrender & President Lincoln took his first steps to aid Fort Sumter & to prepare to defend Federal forts and other Federal property located in the "South".
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There were 34 states when the US Civil War began.
the shooting at fort Sumter started the civil war and the confedarate fired at the union
it was started after the civil war
1861, the un-declared US Civil War, officially called the "War of the Rebellion", and also known as the "War between the states."
Seven states had seceded from the United States by 1861. One of those Confederate states, South Carolina, demanded that the US Army leave Fort Sumter, which started the Civil War.