Bombardment of Fort Sumter
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Major Robert Anderson was in command of the United States forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor when Confederates bombarded the fort on April 12, 1861. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Union General Robert Anderson
Historical Marker #534 in Louisville notes the birthplace of Robert Anderson, the commander of Ft. Sumter and the "first Union hero of [the] Civil War."
Born in 1805 at "Soldiers Retreat" in Jefferson County, Anderson was…