The following is an extract from a letter received in Albany from an officer of the United States Army on duty at Fort Sumter: JANUARY 12, 1861. MY DEAR SIR -- You know our position here.

On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic ... taking Indian fashion to global stage Building an Underground House with 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 ...

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Authorities are investigating after skeletal human remains were found in a vacant building in Sumter County early Friday morning. Coroner Robbie Baker said the remains were found in the 100 block ...

Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Charleston’s ...