A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

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.

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The New York State Library announced the winners of this year’s Battle of the Books competition ... featuring teams from Fort Plain Central School District, Gloverville ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations ...

At the Second Battle of Petersburg in 1864 ... following the bombardment of Fort Sumter – the start of the Civil War. The First Defenders – two units from Pottsville and one each from ...

But after the first guns at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for 75,000 ... to probe the roads ahead—not to start a battle, but to make the Rebels think the army was aiming directly for Manassas.

No war, no Lincoln, no Emancipation Proclamation, no Gettysburg—neither the battle nor the address ... the Confederate noose was tightening around Fort Sumter, in the waters off Charleston ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers died in a defeat so stinging that it spawned a vengeful American battle cry ... the bombardment of a fort called Sumter. “It’s all history in ...

Ditch the text books, jump in the car and head to the ... of conflict during the war for independence. It’s home to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.