Visit Fort Sumter and you'll see a historic Civil War-era flag collection. It includes a Palmetto Guard flag, a U.S. 33-star storm flag and U.S. 33-star garrison flags. The banners have been there 20 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — It sits in the middle of Charleston Harbor, 3.4 miles from the southside of town, but it was what happened at Fort Sumter that forever changed this country and started a bloody four ...

During the years preceding the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, often considered the start of the Civil War, the U.S. military was already busy building defensive fortifications around major cities.

Georgetown's newly elected Mayor Jay Doyle, the first third-party nominee to win a partisan election in South Carolina since 1894. State House subcommittee to hold public hearing on two controversial ...