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 ...

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Cabinet-building has long been crucial for both the success of a presidency and for the direction of the United States. From ...

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

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

Here are the burning questions of Union and states' rights, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both ...

Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Charleston’s ...

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 ...

One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash early this morning in Sumter County, the Coroner’s Office says. The South Carolina Gamecocks look to continue their win streak as they face a ...

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Police in South Carolina need your help finding a missing teenage boy. Timmi’on Singletary, 14, left his home in Sumter, on ...