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 ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April ... evacuated his 85 or so troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter on Dec. 26, 1860, a week after South Carolina seceded from the United States.

and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

As the Union blockade squeezed the Confederate coast during the Civil War, Fort Fisher in North Carolina took on ever ... "The Gibraltar of the South." In fact, the fort's fall in January 1865 ...

During the next 80 years, South Carolina's agriculture ... troops fired on the federally held Fort Sumter in Charleston, plunging the nation into the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in ...

Galvanized by the investigation, South Carolina lawmakers, led by Rep. Alan Clemmons, backed legislation that would completely abolish civil forfeiture. Unfortunately, the bill didn’t fully ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.