Soon after the Harriet Lane’s arrival, the supply ship Baltic and warship Pawnee joined it off Charleston. The Confederate delegation left Fort Sumter in the early morning hours to notify ...

If President Abraham Lincoln surrendered Fort Sumter, as South Carolina demanded ... author of "A Brief History of Charleston," if Confederate President Jefferson Davis and S.C. Gov.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — It sits in the middle of Charleston Harbor, 3.4 miles from the southside of town, but it was what happened at Fort Sumter that forever changed this country and started a bloody four ...

Located in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina’s secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the ...

Please bear with me for this information commercial but in 2019 I needed a quick history refresher to know that Fort Sumter was built in 1829 at the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South ...

(CN) - A 21-year-old has been charged with defacing a brick wall at the Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina. According to prosecutors, Noah Sigalas' action at the fort, the ...

His arraignment is scheduled for May 24 at the Charleston ... Fort Sumter brick is like literally erasing a page from the history of the United States.” U.S. Attorney Beth Drake of the South ...

CHARLESTON,SC (WCBD)- Charleston County Rescue and Harbor is responding to calls for a watercraft in distress in the area of Fort Sumter. The call came in to dispatch just before 8:30 p.m ...

During the winter of 1860-61, the citizens of Charleston (map), South Carolina, were so sure that ... where atop the lonely bulk of Fort Sumter the Stars and Stripes still flew (pictures of ...

From Fort Sumter, the gun's target ... generation," Francis W. Pickens, South Carolina's governor, said proudly from the balcony of a Charleston hotel. Eight months later, much of the joyous ...