He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

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 ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more ... April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

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 ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

at anchor off the town, and that she passed the fort below where she lay against the remonstrances of the officer in command, upon the plea that she was a ship of war and not a privateer.

“This is Fort Sumter.” Just as when the South decided to shell a Northern-held fort in 1861, it felt like the no-turning-back ...

Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, highlighting a less understood aspect of the South ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton ... the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on ...

Ruffin claimed to have fired the first shot aimed at Fort Sumter in April 1861. When the ensuing Civil War ended in disaster ...

Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the National Park Service.