TY - BOOK AU - Colbert,Nancy A. TI - The firing on Fort Sumter: a splintered nation goes to war SN - 188384651X : AV - E471.1 .C65 2000 U1 - 973.7/31 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Greensboro, N.C. PB - Morgan Reynolds Inc. KW - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) KW - Sears KW - Charleston (S.C.) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - 1861-1865, Civil War KW - Campaigns N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index N2 - Recounts the circumstances surrounding the siege and fall of Fort Sumter, on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, the event which signaled the beginning of the Civil War in the United States ER -