Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

An exciting tale is told in a new $73,000 state-funded video presentation at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. The animated production brings to life the story of Robert Smalls, an enslaved man ...

CHARLESTON — When the government shut down Oct. 1, tours to Fort Sumter abruptly ceased, as funding to staff national parks across the country was cut off. But the Charleston excursions to and from ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The Confederate flag is no longer flying over Fort Sumter. The National Park Service said the flag, along with other historic replicas, was taken down last week in the wake of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — More than 120 visitors toured Fort Sumter for the first time in 24 days. The partial government shutdown meant national parks service workers were not able to open Fort ...

The sandbar beach below Fort Sumter apparently isn't a party spot, despite what the National Park Service says. Charleston police marine patrol officers and S.C. Department of Natural Resources law ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A large cannon used at Fort Sumter during the Civil War is getting a new carriage mount. Rick Dorrance with the Fort Sumter National Monument says the gun, a 10-inch Columbiad ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate ...

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park together have contributed more than $35.9 million towards the local economy in 2023, according to a new report ...