Second Battle of Fort Sumter

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Second Battle of Fort Sumter Part of Operations against Defenses of Charleston Date August 17 – December 31, 1863 Location Charleston, South Carolina Result Inconclusive Belligerents United States (Union) CSA (Confederacy) Commanders Quincy Gillmore P.G.T. Beauregard

v • d • e Lower Seaboard Theater Fort Sumter – Santa Rosa Island – Fort Pulaski – Forts Jackson and St. Philip – New Orleans – Secessionville – Simmon's Bluff – Tampa – Baton Rouge – 1st Donaldsonville – St. John's Bluff – Georgia Landing – 1st Fort McAllister – Fort Bisland – Irish Bend – Vermillion Bayou – 1st Charleston Harbor – 1st Fort Wagner – Grimball's Landing – 2nd Fort Wagner – 2nd Charleston Harbor – 2nd Fort Sumter – Plains Store – Port Hudson – LaFourche Crossing – 2nd Donaldsonville – Kock's Plantation – Stirling's Plantation – Fort Brooke – Gainesville – Olustee – Natural Bridge

The Second Battle of Fort Sumter was fought on September 8, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces. The Union forces were attempting to retake the fort after losing it in the first battle of the war. After a severe bombing of the fort, the artillerist and all but one of the fort's guns were replaced with 320 infantrymen, who repulsed a naval landing party.

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