CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Park will commemorate the 248 Anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island with Carolina Day events. Carolina Day is observed ...

According to legend, faces can be seen imprinted on two of Fort Sumter’s authentic battle flags which flew over the fort during the Civil War- The Union “Storm Flag” and the Confederate “Palmetto ...

Decades of tension over slavery and secession exploded in 1861 when Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter. Within months, the first major battle at Bull Run revealed just how bloody the conflict would ...

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will be commemorating the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island this June, with special events ...

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will commemorate the 248th Anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island with programs and weapon firing demonstrations on Saturday, June 29 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to ...

The American Civil War began with tension, but it erupted with cannon fire at Fort Sumter. What followed was the chaotic and shocking Battle of Bull Run, where both sides realized the war would not be ...