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Explanation:
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) in Charleston, SC.
Fort Sumter was bombed near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, its authorities demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
