A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina, hit the market last ... He had built a home on the land before the beginning of the Civil War, but it was lost during the burning ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War ...

Because of a major realignment of the atrium lobby of the Columbia Mills Building, whose principal tenant is the South ...

Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North ... laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take ...

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 ...

Then, leaders in the party refuse to say the Civil War is about slavery ... and just days before the Democratic Primary in South Carolina and Nevada. During both contests, a majority of ...