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Fort Sumter: Quartz Location
At Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, Confederate guns opened fire on the Union-held fort at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, starting the Civil War. After about 34 hours of bombardment, Major Robert Anderson surrendered on April 13, and no one was killed by the shelling.
- Cost
- 5 crystals
- Type
- Location · Fort
- Color
- Quartz (Founders & Revolution)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
Your characters get +0/+2.
Military installation that turned theoretical secession into actual war with just a few well-placed cannonballs.
The real history
After South Carolina left the Union on December 20, 1860, Major Robert Anderson moved his garrison of about 85 federal soldiers from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter on December 26. Sumter was a large brick fort, begun in 1829, on a man-made island in Charleston Harbor, and it was easier to defend. Confederate forces soon surrounded the harbor. A supply ship, the Star of the West, was fired on and turned back.
In early April 1861 President Abraham Lincoln decided to send supplies but not reinforcements, hoping to show firmness without being the one to start a fight. South Carolina saw it as an act of war. Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard, who had once studied artillery under Anderson at West Point, demanded surrender. Anderson refused.
At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, a mortar shell fired from Fort Johnson burst over Sumter, and the guns around the harbor opened fire. The shelling went on for about 34 hours. Anderson surrendered at 2:30 p.m. on April 13 and the fort was formally handed over on April 14. No one was killed by the shelling itself.
The effect was immediate. On April 15 Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion, and Virginia and three other Upper South states then left the Union. The fort stayed in Confederate hands until February 1865, when Union forces retook it after a long bombardment of Charleston.
Sources
- April 1861, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, National Park Service
- The History of Fort Sumter, American Battlefield Trust
How the card plays
Fort Sumter costs 5 crystals and is a Quartz Location. Your characters get +0/+2.
The bonus adds only health, so it does not make your characters hit harder, but it makes them much harder to kill. A 2/2 becomes a 2/4, which can survive damage that would normally finish it, and 1-damage effects mostly stop mattering. It works best when you are defending or trading well in combat. Abigail Adams is a Guard blocker that becomes extra sturdy, The Statue of Liberty adds +1/+1 for the whole team, and The Flag adds the same bonus as an item, so your army grows both ways while it stays alive.
- Playable in decks led by George Washington, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Quartz.
- In the Washington starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-BhoCgAKBAYIBgwGEAYUBhgKHAYgBiQGKAYsBjAKNAY4BjwGQAZEBkgGTAZQBlQGWAZcBmAGZAZoCmwGcAZ0BngGfAaABoQFBjA - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
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