I believed that the war had already started in April when the confederate soldiers fired boldly on fort sumter

Fort Sumter was the location of the first battle of the Civil War. Several southern states had already seceded from the Union, marking the beginning of political conflict, but Fort Sumter was where the military conflict/the Civil War technically began.

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