PALMER had no right to attack the Sumter within three miles of the shore: U.S. STEAMER IROQUOIS, (off St. Pierre, MARTINIQUE, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1861 ... the guns of the fort and near a French ...

December 13 ... of Fort Sumter the 19-year-old Taylor enlisted in Company A, First Pennsylvania Volunteers. The regiment was mustered in at Harrisburg on April 20th 1861. If he was like many ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina.

Along with 13 other sites, Fort Sumter joins a network of over 740 locations connected to enslaved people’s struggle to ...

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 Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter on April 12. Enlists to fight in the Civil War on May 8. On June 13, promoted to second ... during the Battle of Shiloh, John Wesley Powell raises his ...

The Zouaves have been encamped during the Summer upon Santa Rosa Island, generally within reach of Fort Pickens. The story runs that a large force of the rebels, who have swarmed for six months ...

That hope had already been dashed ten months before, on April 12-13, 1861, when southern canons had fired upon Fort Sumter, and war came upon the south and Jefferson Davis. That evening after his ...

The Safe Drinking Water Act is a federal law that sets quality standards for the systems that provide Americans with drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency uses a weighted point ...

This metric evaluates the three-year average of net migration to and from a state – both international and domestic – as a percentage of the state population, using data from the U.S. Census ...

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