Fort Sumter National Monument is perched on a small island in Charleston Harbor several miles southwest of the city. Ferries to the monument depart from the Fort Sumter visitor center (in ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

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.

In Charleston, SC, the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery fired on the Union occupied Fort Sumter. Union Major Robert Anderson moved his ...

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 ...

The iconic fort known as Fort Sumter is where the American Civil War erupted. Today, it stands tall as a weathered beacon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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CHARLESTON, April 16 ... has occurred during the vigorous action of thirty-three hours of reducing Fort Sumter. Four trifling contusions are reported at Fort Moultrie, but none at other posts ...

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 ...