Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students from Covenant Classical School of Concord, North Carolina, help raise a replica of a Civil War era American flag during ...

S.C. Marks The Day Cannons Roared At Fort Sumter The first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago Tuesday at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The state was the first to secede from the Union; ...

The Civil War began here shortly before dawn when a mortar on the starlit beach fired a single shot high into the sky over this proud and elegant city. From Fort Sumter, the gun's target out in the ...

On Saturday morning. January 19, 1861, the steamer Columbia, from New York, lay off the harbor of Charleston in full sight of Fort Sumter. It is a circumstance which perhaps would never have reached ...

Boom! A single cannon shell burst in a flash of light high above Fort Sumter. This was the signal for the Confederate attack on the U.S. fort to begin. It was also the moment our Civil War began — ...

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At 4:30 in the morning on April 12, 1861, the South Carolina militia lobbed a 10-inch mortar over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The first shot of the Civil War was a signal for a bombardment.

A graduate of “the first college to commit treason” against the United States takes stock of how far we have come since. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

FORT SUMTER — At its exposed location at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter was the target of the first shots fired in the Civil War. More than a century and half later, it's part of a new ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...