{"id":3926,"date":"2021-04-12T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2021-04-10T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T00:33:59","slug":"civil-war-day-by-day-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/civil-war-day-by-day-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Day-by-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 12, 1861<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>Beginning at 4:30 am on the 12th and continuing until the morning of the 13th, Confederate batteries along the shore of Charleston Harbor fire on Fort Sumter under the command of Major Robert Anderson.<\/li>\n<li>Bombardment of Fort Sumter\u2013<strong><em>actual commencement of the war<\/em><\/strong>\u2013began at 4.30 A.M., and continued all day and at intervals during the night.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Legislature of Pennsylvania voted $500,000 to arm the State.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Fort Pickens reinforced by U. S. troops.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li><em>A Chronological History of the Civil War in America <\/em>by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12, 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Beginning at 4:30 am on the 12th and continuing until the morning of the 13th, Confederate batteries along the shore of Charleston Harbor fire on Fort Sumter under the command of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":104285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,142],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-chronological-history-of-the-civil-war-in-america","8":"category-civil-war-day-by-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Battle-of-Fort-Sumter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}