Historical Fiction Paper

The battle started on April 12, 1861 when the Confederacy under the command of P.G.T Beauregard shot their cannons at our supply ship carrying our food, ammunition, and our drinking water. Our men were down to eating crackers and some of the drinking water we had left. We were running out of water and crackers quickly and we were going to starve to death without the food. The Confederacy hated us being in South Carolina, it was supposed to be their territory. Robert Anderson was our leader in the fort we had communication with the rest of the Union. Our headquarters said that they would attempt to send another ship without guns or ammunition on the ship . The Union told the Confederacy that there would be no guns or ammunition on the ship, but the Confederacy still shot down the ship.

The Confederacy obviously wanted to start a battle with us, and their obvious intention was to get us out of the fort . We would not go down without a fight. Robert Anderson ordered for us to fire back. We started to fire at the confederacy, we figured we had the advantage. We quickly discovered something horrible though. Our cannons were not strong enough to reach the confederacy . We quickly ran out of ammunition for the cannons as well once the Confederacy saw this they started to get into ships and move toward us cannons were constantly fired at our fort.

The confederacy fired at our fort for 34 straight hours at our fort. The reason why we could not hit them back was because it was too risky to use our best cannons at the top of the fort. If we used these cannons we would all get killed easily. On April 13 we had to evacuate the fort. There were no Union causalities or any men KIA. Though there was one Confederate causality caused by one of the confederate cannon misfires. We escaped using ships Abraham Lincoln sent for help. Our fort was completely destroyed. Most importantly though is that the Civil War had begun.