Historical artifacts with deep connections to both national history and the state of South Carolina will soon be up for ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American ...

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 ...

1861: Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War. 1873: Members of the pro-White, paramilitary White League ...

Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard ...

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 ...

Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation slid into civil war over sectional issues. Nevertheless, it became the “flashpoint for the Civil War in 1861” (p. xi). With the secession of ...

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