A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

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The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month at an auction house in Greenville.

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

Hatcher gives us a good account of the protracted stand off over the fort (December 1860-April 1861). He then covers the bombardment and defense of Sumter, and its final surrender on April 14, 1861, ...

Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Charleston’s ...

Davis and Pickens now had two options: Either capture Fort Sumter before those ships arrived or, they incorrectly assumed, allow armed warships to enter Charleston Harbor. Editor’s note ...

FORT SUMTER, Monday, Feb. 25 ... These will bear directly upon the rear of the Fort. A large command are now stationed on Morris Island, at the different batteries there. At Fort Moultrie they ...