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== Verberatio ==

Disceptationes post mediam noctem erant futiles. Hora 3:20 ante meridiem, die [[12 Aprilis]] [[1861]], legati Confoederationis Anderson nuntiaverunt se una hora posthac castellum verberare incipere. Hora 4:30 a.m., singularis testa mortaria ([[Anglice]]: ''mortar shell''), ex Castello Johnson emissa, super Castellum Sumter dirupta est—signum initii verberationis et belli. Mox quadraginta tres cannonae et mortaria{{dubsig}}<!--mortars--> in [[Castellum Moultrie|Castello Moultrie]], Castello Johnson, [[Tormenta Innans Portus Carolopolitis|Tormentis Innantes Portus Carolopolitis]], et Puncto Cummings castellum verberabant. [[Edmundus Ruffin]], secessionista notabilis, qui Carolopolitem iverat ut belli initio praesens esset, prima tela ad Sumter emisit post teli signum iactum.<!-- Anderson withheld his fire until 7:00 a.m., when [[Capitaneus (Exercitus CFA)|Capitaneus]]{{dubsig}} [[Abner Doubleday]] fired a shot at the Ironclad Battery at Cummings Point. But there was little Anderson could do with his sexaginta cannonis; he deliberately avoided using guns that were situated in the fort where casualties were likely. The fort's best cannons were mounted on the uppermost of its three tiers, where his troops were most exposed to enemy fire. The fort had been designed to hold out against a naval assault, and naval warships of the time did not mount guns capable of elevating to fire over the walls of the fort; however, the land-based cannons manned by the South Carolina militia were capable of landing such indirect fire on Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter's praesidium could safely fire the guns only on the lower levels, which themselves, by virtue of being in stone emplacements, were largely incapable of indirect fire that could seriously threaten Fort Moultrie. Praeterea, quamquam Foederati had moved as much of their supplies to Fort Sumter as they could manage, the fort was low on ammunition, and was nearly out at the end of the 34-hour bombardment.--> Verberatio Castelli Sumter ex tormentis circa portum habitatores Carolopolitis expergefecit, [[Maria Chesnut]] diarista non exclusa, qui in obscuritate ante primam lucem observabant dum testae arcus super aquam faciebant et intra castellum dirumpebant.<ref>Chesnut, n.p.</ref> Durabat verberatio per noctem usque tempus matutinum, cum, testa habitationem praefectorum percussens, incendium inflammavit quod armamentarium praecipuum in discrimen adduxit.