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

Now, the sandbar connects James Island and Fort Sumter from mid tide to low tide. "It has grown to be one of the most popular boating beaches in the Charleston Harbor," Sveum wrote in the renaming ...

Fort Sumter National Monument is perched on a small island in Charleston Harbor several miles southwest of the city. Ferries to the monument depart from the Fort Sumter visitor center (in ...

I immediatey started for the Atlantic Docks, Charleston, (Col. BENNETT being in my boat, having boarded me in the harbor between Sumter and Fort Ripley.) Arriving at the dock, my flag was ...

The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time. In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between ...

Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation ... to begin a 22-month siege of Charleston. Hatcher covers the subsequent fighting around the harbor, and Sumter’s role in it, such as the ...

Fort Sumter National Monument Superintendent ... Stone says that as a focal point of Charleston Harbor, the only flag that should be seen flying atop the monument is the current U.S. flag.

On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, Friday, Nov. 20. The enemy made a demonstration, in six launches, against Fort Sumter this morning at 3 o'clock, but were repulsed in a few minutes by the garrison, the batteries ...