We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic tour with the National Park Service. Go along with us as we visit the location where the ...

The Town of Sullivans Island is in early conversation to restore an integral historic Revolutionary War site to its former ...

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 ...

The following table, showing the rank and record of the gentlemen now in command at Fort Sumter, will be interesting at this time: Names. Regiment or Corps. Appo'd from. Major R. Anderson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

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 ...

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 ...