Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard ordered his batteries in Charleston, SC to open fire on Ft. Sumter, formally initiating the Civil War. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort the next day.
One of the greatest ironies is that the opening battle of the Civil War ended with the only casulty being a Confederate horse. The first official casualties of the war, Union Privates Daniel Hough and Edward Gallway, were killed when an ammunition dump blew up from a stray spark during a gun salute of the American flag just prior to the Union men leaving the fort.
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