Fort Sumter is located on an island in SC in the Charleston Harbor.The Norther army were the ones who held it. The fort needed to be resupplied. South Carolina did not like that the north held the fort. So they did not let them resupply. Then the Confederate army demanded for the north to evacuate the fort but they refused. In response the Confederate army open fire on the fort. The Union army ended up surrendering and the confederate army claimed the fort. This was the beginning of the Civil War.
Abner Doubleday was an U.S military officer who served as a Union General during the Civil War. Doubleday graduated from west point and served during the Mexican- American War. in 1861 he was in second in command of Fort Sumter. Doubleday also participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam. Doubleday led a corps on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. He then served in administrative duty in Washington D.C during the rest of the war. After the war he continued staying in the army. He then later died in 1893 at the age of 73.