We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic tour with the ...

This is doubtless an exaggeration. But it is not at all likely that those who did arrive, came in consequence of the removal of troops to Fort Sumter. That event could not have been known when ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

Unionists responded with their own verses. Augustine Duganne, a New York legislator, soldier and poet, asked in an 1863 poem: ...

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park together have contributed more than ...

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Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Charleston’s ...

In 1829, the United States government began the construction of a fort at the entrance to the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina. That same year, in distant Indiana, Abraham Lincoln had just ...

Here are the burning questions of Union and states' rights, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both ...