In April 1861, the United States reached a critical juncture as several southern states withdrew from the Union. The firing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students from Covenant Classical School of Concord, North Carolina, help raise a replica of a Civil War era American flag during ...
A sign educating visitors on the impact climate change will have on Fort Sumter is back on display after park staff were directed to remove earlier this year.
The Civil War began here shortly before dawn when a mortar on the starlit beach fired a single shot high into the sky over this proud and elegant city. From Fort Sumter, the gun's target out in the ...
S.C. Marks The Day Cannons Roared At Fort Sumter The first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago Tuesday at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The state was the first to secede from the Union; ...
Boom! A single cannon shell burst in a flash of light high above Fort Sumter. This was the signal for the Confederate attack on the U.S. fort to begin. It was also the moment our Civil War began — ...
We went to Fort Sumter expecting a history lesson. Instead, we got a metal detector meltdown and a piece of the past that still smells like gunpowder and judgment.
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On Saturday morning. January 19, 1861, the steamer Columbia, from New York, lay off the harbor of Charleston in full sight of Fort Sumter. It is a circumstance which perhaps would never have reached ...
FORT SUMTER — At its exposed location at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter was the target of the first shots fired in the Civil War. More than a century and half later, it's part of a new ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...