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

We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ... having made no attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. The battle lasted 34 hours before Anderson surrendered. Despite the attack’s intensity, no ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate ...

In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding ... "It was designed to defend against seaborne attack from a foreign power. Nobody expected that one day this fort would be the target ...

Bordewich believes that Fort Sumter—or some other flash point—was virtually inevitable. “I think it was an unavoidable conflict, a necessary conflict,” he says. “The people of 1861 were ...

With the secession of South Carolina in late 1861, only Sumter remained in Union hands ... 1863), the unsuccessful naval attack on the fort (September 8–9), and, of course, William T. Sherman’s entry ...

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 ...

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 ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The U.S. Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1945: President Franklin D.

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 ...

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 ...