After Fort Sumter fell, Scott wanted his accomplished subordinate, Robert E. Lee, to command the gathering U.S. forces. When the future Confederate general declined, Scott told him, "Lee ...

But the Battle of Fort Sumter was a call to arms for both sides. The great convulsion had come at last, releasing stresses accumulated over generations of sectional strife. "We were waiting and ...

The dead would include Capt. James — killed at the Battle of South Mountain, in Maryland, in 1862. Fort Sumter is still perched on its shoal at the entrance to Charleston’s shimmering harbor ...

The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a ...

P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery fired on the Union occupied Fort Sumter. Union Major Robert Anderson ... the fort to the Confederates. This battle caused both North and South to rally for more ...

FORT SUMTER, S.C. -- The nation's bloodiest war started with a historic battle in which no one died. The Civil War, a conflict that would end with about 620,000 fatalities, began at Fort Sumter on ...

Immediately upon the flag being struck at Fort Sumter, I proceeded to that fortress to tender my assistance and Hospital at Mount Pleasant, to Major ANDERSON, and was gratified to learn ...