Located in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina's secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the events ...

At the time U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson commanded units of the 1st U.S. Artillery at Fort Moultrie, guarding the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. On Dec. 26, Anderson moved his command to ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

Fort Sumter, where the Civil War started in 1861, is located in the middle of Charleston Harbor, and is only accessible by ferry rides. More It is the violence, the resolve and the history of this ...

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O n Saturday morning, January 19, 1861, the steamer Columbia, from New York, lay off the harbor of Charleston in full sight of Fort Sumter. It is a circumstance which perhaps would never have ...

Erik Larson, author of :"The Demon of Unrest," and correspondent Anthony Mason at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. ... At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire.

The ship was running slow in the dark, trying to feel its way into the channel. It had arrived outside Charleston Harbor around 1:30 a.m., the crew mildly surprised to discover that all the city's ...

Archaeologists have dived, mapped and completed the first survey of the prolonged Civil War naval battle that took place in Charleston Harbor in 1861 - 1865.

The first shots of the War Between the States were fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor in 1861. Federal troops, under command of Maj. Robert Anderson, ...