A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

CHARLESTON, Saturday, April 15, 1865. I have already given you as full a report as your crowded columns will admit, of the proceedings at Fort Sumter on the occasion of the raising of the national ...

which most residents felt was a victory in itself, and no one was anticipating four long years of bloodshed and 620,000 dead. “When you walk through Charleston or stand at Fort Sumter,” says ...

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ...

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 ...

The 248th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island will be commemorated by Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie ... "This was the first decisive victory by the American colonies in their fight ...

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 ...

Authorized in 1827 by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation slid into civil war over sectional issues. Nevertheless, it became the “flashpoint for the ...

Among the auction's most notable highlights is the surrender flag from Fort Sumter, waved during the American Civil War when Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort to Confederate forces.