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 NATIONAL MONUMENT — Re-enactors played "Yankee Doodle" as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter's surrender to Confederate attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down ...
April 12 marks the anniversary of the start of the American Civil War in 1861. In Charleston, SC, the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery ...
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 ...
FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – An item believed to be an old cannonball was safely removed from Fort Sumter over the weekend. The fort, now a popular tourist destination that sits on an island in the ...
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Sunday marks the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and local businesses are still feeling the effects. Many national parks are closed including Fort Sumter, but on ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — American historians did what they do best this weekend and that’s tell the story of history. The first shots of the Civil War took place in Charleston at Fort ...
(WHTM) — On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. At the time U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson commanded ...
A Civil War-era cannonball was discovered and safely removed at Fort Sumter National Historic Park in South Carolina on Saturday, according to local news reports. Emergency services were called to the ...
The flags of the Confederacy that flew high over Fort Sumter, the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, have been taken down from the historic site. The decision to remove the flags ...
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