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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civil War reenactors flock to Charleston, SC to recreate the Battle of Fort Sumter on the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War. Civil War reenactors flock to Charleston ...