A tour through Fort Sumter turns into a close look at the damage still locked inside its brick walls. As they move through ...

The threat posed by Hurricane Irma has prompted officials at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to drop all tours. Dawn Davis with the Fort Sumter National Monument said in a news release Thursday that ...

We went to Fort Sumter expecting a history lesson. Instead, we got a metal detector meltdown and a piece of the past that still smells like gunpowder and judgment.

S.C. Marks The Day Cannons Roared At Fort Sumter The first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago Tuesday at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The state was the first to secede from the Union; ...

FORT SUMTER — At its exposed location at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter was the target of the first shots fired in the Civil War. More than a century and half later, it's part of a new ...

The Civil War began here shortly before dawn when a mortar on the starlit beach fired a single shot high into the sky over this proud and elegant city. From Fort Sumter, the gun's target out in the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Most people who visit Fort Sumter go there wanting to learn more about how and where the Civil War started. It all began at this island fortress, in Charleston Harbor, 151 years ago ...

A retired National Parks historian for Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Richard Hatcher opens this new work on the history of Sumter with a look at its origins, as part of the nation’s coastal defense ...

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