<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter" id="mwaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Fort Sumter">Battle of Fort Sumter</a>. The war begins with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> forces firing on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fort Sumter">Fort Sumter</a>, in the harbor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a>.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_12#cite_note-9" id="mwbQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbg">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt52" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFEicher2002">Eicher, David J. (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1p94XzYASDAC" id="mwB38" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB4A">The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War</i></a>. London: Pimlico. pp.<span id="mwB4E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>37–38. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB4I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB4M" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780712668545" id="mwB4Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780712668545"><bdi id="mwB4U">9780712668545</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt52" class="Z3988" id="mwB4Y" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Longest+Night%3A+A+Military+History+of+the+Civil+War&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=37-38&amp;rft.pub=Pimlico&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=9780712668545&amp;rft.aulast=Eicher&amp;rft.aufirst=David+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1p94XzYASDAC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+12"></span></span>