On 14 April 1865, four years to the day after lowering the Fort Sumter Flag in surrender, Bro. Robert Anderson, by then a major general, although ill and in retired status, returned to the ruined fort to raise the flag he had lowered in 1861.
At the start of the civil war fort Sumter bombardment occurred over three days and no casualties, however, one of the most famous battles of the war, that of Gettysburg lasted for three days and the total dead numbered over 51,000.
