Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The steamship Star of the West, Capt. MCGOWAN, returned to this port on Saturday morning from Charleston harbor, after an abortive attempt to land 200 troops and four officers at Fort Sumter ...

The Map given above presents an accurate view of the Harbor of Charleston, with the relative position of the several forts which were built by the General Government for its protection.

On the cover is a steel engraving of South Carolina’s Governor—as he appeared in 1861. Inside are maps and pictures of Charleston Harbor and a side view of Star of the West, the side-wheel ...

The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time ... At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire. Over two days, more than 3,300 shells and balls ...

In the spring of 1861, a Confederate general ordered a mortar battery at the fort to launch a shell into Charleston Harbor.

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today ... perched on a small island in Charleston Harbor several miles southwest ...