A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

During our visit to Fort Sumter, the site where the American Civil War began, we made an incredible discovery - a Civil War-era artillery shell still lodged in the brick wall of the fort!

Davis immediately instructed Beauregard that under no circumstances was he to allow provisions to reach Fort Sumter. The Pocahontas, with 95 men and six cannons, departed Norfolk, Va., heading south.

Take your time exploring the thick stone caverns, which still house several Civil War-era cannons. You should also stop by Fort Sumter's small, yet informative museum, which provides more in-depth ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...

protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Lincoln responded to the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Over the next four years, approximately 720,000 men died in the war to preserve ...

Elan Fleisher / www.agefotostock.com Cannon boomed, brass bands serenaded ... But after the first guns at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion, the ...

After Confederate forces opened fire on the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in South Carolina ... “The North is getting up some Savage Cannons to shoot. They will shoot one mile through a ...