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Description: This Day in History: , The Civil War Begins.<br/>April 12, 1861.<br/>Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, SC, <br/>is attacked by Confederate shore batteries <br/>under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard.<br/>After being battered <br/>for 34 straight hours, <br/>U.S. Major Robert Anderson <br/>surrendered the fort.<br/>U.S. President Abraham Lincoln <br/>called for 75,000 volunteer <br/>soldiers two days later.<br/>He had been in office <br/>for barely more than a month.<br/>South Carolina, a slave state,<br/>had issued an \