The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a ...

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 ...

Pickens could not allow Federal troops to maintain a presence in Charleston Harbor ... having made no attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. The battle lasted 34 hours before Anderson surrendered.

I immediatey started for the Atlantic Docks, Charleston, (Col. BENNETT being in my boat, having boarded me in the harbor between Sumter and Fort Ripley.) Arriving at the dock, my flag was ...

CHARLESTON, Saturday, April 15, 1865. I have already given you as full a report as your crowded columns will admit, of the proceedings at Fort Sumter on the occasion of the raising of the national ...

No one, not even Seward, knew Lincoln had secretly given orders to have the warships pass by Charleston and continue to Florida. Davis and Pickens now had two options: Either capture Fort Sumter ...