The Battle of Fort Sumter

Today was going to be his favorite day. He was going to start to be in the Union army today even though he has been with us for months.
All of the sudden we here a cannon go off. Captain screams what on earth is going on who could be firing cannons at us right now. Half of the fort bas been blown up we start to fire our cannons at those people. As we are firing our cannons at them we get a report that those people across the lake are the people from the south. Immediately we stop firing our cannons. We tell that guy that was supposed to get his rank today to go and fire a salute shot to tell them that we are surrendering. Something had to have been wrong because as he shot it the cannon exploded. It looked really nasty his guts were flying all over the place. Our captain got the next recruit to fire off the salute this time it works and the south stops firing we escape from boats without them capturing us. We only had one death and 3 people injured. We got a report on what the kid did wrong on his first time that he shot the cannon. He put too much gun powder in the cannon and too big of a ball so that ball got stuck and the whole cannon exploded.