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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Cannons boomed at daybreak around metropolis Harbor, recreating the onslaught of Fort Sumter that plunged the commonwealth into the Civil War on April 12, 1861.

The South Carolina ceremony weekday begins the four-year national ceremony of the 150th day of the nation's bloodiest war.

Around 4 a.m. Tuesday, a azygos shine of light was aimed skyward from Fort Sumter. Then about half-hour after — around the instance of the first shots of the struggle — the shine separate into digit beams, signifying a commonwealth torn in two.

The struggle resulted in more than 600,000 deaths, although during the onslaught of Sumter exclusive a protagonist officer's horse was killed.

Union troops in the fort given after absorbing 36 hours of protagonist shells.

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