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.

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.

Arlie “Ross” Williford Jr. age 73, of Knoxville, TN, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, April 13, 2025, after a courageous four-year battle with cancer. Ross was a ...

A battle scene, in blue and red ink and bearing ... After Confederate forces opened fire on the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, President Lincoln asked ...

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

That’s because that was the year that Union forces took the city scant weeks after the Battle of Fort Sumter, which means that some of the war’s first casualities fell here. After that occurred, ...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – 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 ...

The free Fort Concho Speaker Series is returning in ... “Businesses of San Angelo” • April 30: “The Battle of McClellan” Guests can submit topics for future talks, the media release ...

Among the auction's most notable highlights is the surrender flag from Fort Sumter, waved during the American Civil War when Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort to Confederate forces.