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Who was the general in charge of the Union during the attack on Fort Sumter?

The officer in charge of the small Union garrison inside Fort Sumter was Major Robert Anderson. Anderson, who had been stationed along with his men at Fort Moultrie, at the tip of nearby Sullivan's Island, moved his men to Fort Sumter,  which sits on a small man-made island guarding the entrance to Charleston Harbor. This decision, made amid the growing crisis in Charleston following South Carolina's secession, would prove a fateful one. Newly-inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln could not abandon the fort to the Confederates, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis did not feel that he could tolerate the presence of Union troops on what he claimed was Confederate soil. Eventually, Lincoln made the decision to resupply the fort, and the Confederates began the Civil War by opening fire on the fort. Anderson, a native of slaveholding Kentucky, was promoted to brigadier general during the war, and quickly became a national hero.

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