Second Battle of Fort Sumter
- Second Battle of Fort Sumter
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Second Battle of Fort Sumter
partof=the American Civil War
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date=September 9, 1863
place=Charleston, South Carolina
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territory=
result= Inconclusive
combatant1= flagicon|USA|1863 United States (Union)
combatant2= flagicon|CSA|1863 CSA (Confederacy)
commander1= Quincy Gillmore
commander2=P.G.T. Beauregard
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The Second Battle of Fort Sumter was fought on September 9, 1863, in Charleston Harbor. Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, who had commanded the defenses of Charleston and captured Fort Sumter in the first battle of the war, was in overall command of the defenders. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Quincy Gillmore attempted to retake the fort at the mouth of the harbor. Union gunners pummeled the fort from their batteries on Morris Island. After a severe bombing of the fort, Beauregard suspecting an attack replaced the artillerymen and all but one of the fort's guns with 320 infantrymen, who repulsed the naval landing party. Gillmore had reduced Fort Sumter to a pile of rubble but the Confederate Flag still waved over the ruins.
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