{"id":4055,"date":"2026-04-12T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:27:33","slug":"civil-war-began-in-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Began in 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/common\/uploads\/photogallery\/akr\/park\/fosu\/825C9E95-1DD8-B71C-071760EA020369A5\/825C9E95-1DD8-B71C-071760EA020369A5-small.JPG\" alt=\"Fort Sumter Today\" width=\"158\" height=\"119\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fort Sumter Today<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina<\/strong>. Children can view images of Fort Sumter today and the fort during the Civil War at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fosu\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fosu\/index.htm<\/a>. Children could color on a map the states that became the Confederacy, the states that remained in the Union, and the areas that were not states then. The Civil War ended April 9, 1865.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina. Children can view images of Fort Sumter today and the fort during the Civil War at: http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fosu\/index.htm. Children could color on a map the states that became the Confederacy, the states that remained in the Union, and the areas that <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4055' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5213,5470,266,356,2510,2511,267],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5213","tag-april-12","tag-charleston","tag-civil-war","tag-confederate-troops","tag-fort-sumter","tag-south-carolina","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}