While touring the historic grounds of Fort Sumter, we spotted something incredible - an artillery projectile still lodged in the fort’s brick wall after more than 160 years. This site, where the first ...

Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation slid into civil war over sectional issues. Nevertheless, it became the “flashpoint for the Civil War in 1861” (p. xi). With the secession of ...

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, one of the last Union strongholds in the South. The video dives into the ...

CHARLESTON, Saturday, April 15, 1865. I have already given you as full a report as your crowded columns will admit, of the proceedings at Fort Sumter ... which South Carolina has always ignored ...

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.

This historic property tied to “Southern Charm” bad boy Thomas Ravenel just made history in Charleston, South Carolina ... of Charleston Harbour and Fort Sumter. Though Ravenel’s family ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie in the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program.

The defensive linchpin was Fort Sumter, where the war’s first ... “Morris Island is the best Civil War site there is in Charleston, if not South Carolina,” says Civil War historian Gordon ...

The iconic Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the American ... Nestled off the coast of South Carolina, this historic landmark - which once withstood a barrage of cannon fire - is crumbling ...