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The Fort Sumter Flag is a historic United States flag with a distinctive, diamond -shaped pattern of 33 stars. When the main flagpole was felled by a shot during the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces, Peter Hart rushed to retrieve the flag and remount it on a makeshift pole.
Those flown include a 33-star United States flag, a Confederate First National Flag (Stars and Bars), a South Carolina State Flag, a Confederate Second National Flag (Stainless Banner), and a 35-star United States flag. This display was added to Fort Sumter National Monument in the 1970s.
The Fort Sumter Flag becomes a galvanizing symbol for patriotism in the North as it travels around the country, and eventually makes it way back to Fort Sumter at the close of the war.
The First official flag of the Confederacy, known as the "Stars and Bars," or "First National," was raised in April 1861 when Southern forces occupied Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War. (Lower Left):
In the North, the firing on Fort Sumter was viewed as an assault on the American Union and rallied thousands to the defense of the American flag. Lincoln’s call for volunteers to invade the South forced the Upper South states to secede and join the Confederacy as well.
Three flags are associated with Fort Sumter: the garrison and storm flags that flew over Fort Sumter during the battle in 1861, and the Palmetto Guard flag (a homemade flag of Palmetto Guard, a Charleston volunteer unit, first Confederate flag to fly over the fort after its surrender).
Fort Sumter, an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, is most famous for being the site of the first battle of the American Civil War.
Palmetto Flag. On April 14th 1861, men of the 18th South Carolina regiment raised this Palmetto flag over the captured fort. The Palmetto flag confirmed the start of the dreaded Civil War.
Photograph shows the Confederate flag flying at Fort Sumter, on April 15, 1861, following the evacuation of Major Anderson's US Army garrison, documenting the beginning of the Civil War. Library of Congress
Major Robert Anderson raised this large garrison flag over the unfinished Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor on December 26, 1860. It was flying on April 12, 1861 when the Confederate forces began firing on the fort. On April 13th, the garrison flag ripped from below the 4th red stripe to the hoist.