The iconic fort known as Fort Sumter is where the American Civil War erupted. Today, it stands tall as a weathered beacon ...

During the winter of 1860-61, the citizens of Charleston (map), South Carolina, were so sure that no war would follow their recent move to secede from the United ... bulk of Fort Sumter the ...

Fort Sumter was only one in a ... shots exchanged in anger between the United States and the Confederate States—then fell silent. (Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.) ...

Between the opening shots at Fort Sumter and the final Confederate surrender, the United States endured a true trial by fire. It met that test, eventually healed its material and psychic wounds ...

SIR: The Government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstration against Fort sumter, in the hope that the Government of the United States, with a view to the ...

Soon after the "steamer which bore the dispatch from Gov. PICKENN had left Fort Sumter to return, the United states flag was displayed from that fortress, and it thus became a stronghold of ...

threatening the very future of the United States. Though the attack claimed no soldiers’ lives in the time before the Union forces surrendered Fort Sumter, it would live in history as the battle ...

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter ... any post in the United States which you ...

The U.S. garrison flag flew over Fort Sumter until it sustained wind damage the night of April 11, 1861. It was replaced by the smaller United States storm flag that endured a 34-hour bombardment ...