In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding ... "It was designed to defend against seaborne attack from a foreign power. Nobody expected that one day this fort would be the target ...

There is a great deal of speculation as to the intentions of the Administration in regard to reinforcing Fort Sumter ... so long as no attack upon the fort is made, unless at the request of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate ...

Hatcher covers the subsequent fighting around the harbor, and Sumter’s role in it, such as the famous assault on Battery Wagner led by the 54th Massachusetts (July 18, 1863), the unsuccessful naval ...

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 ...