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

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

In April 1861, cannons opened fire on Fort Sumter—and the American Civil War began. This is the tense standoff that turned into the first battle of a nation divided. Poland firmly responds to US ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina ... 1865 — was the Battle of Fort Myers. Cathy Chestnut wrote about that battle in the Feb ...

having made no attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. The battle lasted 34 hours before Anderson surrendered. Despite the attack’s intensity, no one on either side was killed, nor even seriously wounded.

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 ...

When the battle began, they were there ... whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox—at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg ...

The Charleston Mercury of the 12th has the following paragraph: "We understand that certain communications have taken place between the authorities of the State and the Commander of Fort Sumter ...

A motorcade carrying the former president’s remains departed Americus shortly after 10:30 a.m. from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center ... Reynolds and Fort Valley, so that mourners could pay their ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the National Park Service. The Network to Freedom program consists of sites ...