Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of the "Battle of Fort Sumter" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Anderson, battle, Civil War, Confederacy, Fort Sumter, Union
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event. Use the Advanced Search tab to search the month of April 1861.
Use the Advanced Search to find the words Fort and Sumter in proximity to each other.
An alternative spelling of Fort Sumter is Fort Sumpter.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Fight Expected! Government Messengar Denied Admission to Sumter"
Cleveland Morning Leader (Cleveland, OH), April 10, 1861, Page 4, Image 4, col. 1.
"Fort Sumter"
The Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court House, SC), April 11, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.
"Forts Sumter and Pickens"
Daily Nashville Patriot (Nashville, TN), April 11, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.
"Maj. Anderson's Supplies Stopped: Sumter to be Held"
The Tiffin Weekly Tribune (Tiffin, OH), April 12, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 4.
"The War Commenced!"
Fremont Journal Extra (Fremont, OH), April 13, 1861, Saturday Morning, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Latest War News!! Anderson Surrenders!"
Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN), April 14, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 3.
"Surrender of Fort Sumter--The President's Address to the Virginia Committee"
The National Republican (Washington, DC), April 15, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 2.
"The Pro-Slavery War, The Bombardment of Fort Sumter"
New-York Daily Tribune (New York, NY), April 15, 1861, Page 5, Image 5, col. 1.
"Hostilities Commenced! Bombardment of Fort Sumter!!"
Daily Nashville Patriot (Nashville, TN), April 16, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 4.
"Civil War Begun--Fort Sumter Taken"
Western Reserve Chronicle (Warren, OH), April 17, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1-5.
"Fort Sumter Given Up!!"
The Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court House, SC), April 17, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 3.
"War Begun!"
The Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA), April 18, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 2.
"War Begun! The Traitors Fire the First Gun!"
The Alleghanian (Ebensburg, PA), April 18, 1861, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.

Battle of Fort Sumter: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America