This Fourth of July, during a day of parades, baseball and barbecues, somewhere, close by, a marching band surely will be ...

During our guided tour of Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we discovered an original Civil War artillery shell still embedded in the fort’s brick wall. This powerful visual reminder of the ...

The First Shots of Civil War At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, a signal shell from Fort Johnson exploded over Fort Sumter. Virginia politician Edmund Ruffin, a 67-year-old who came to Charleston for ...

Hatcher covers the subsequent fighting around the harbor, and Sumter’s role in it, such as the famous assault on Battery Wagner led by the 54th Massachusetts (July 18, 1863), the unsuccessful naval ...

It was one built of necessity. The village was on an island, situated inside a fort, and it was built to protect the burgeoning settlement against attack. The British controlled the territory. Spain ...

A few months prior to that surrender — Feb. 20, 1865 — was the Battle of Fort Myers. Cathy Chestnut wrote about that battle in the Feb. 21, 2015, Fort Myers News-Press. Here are some excerpts.

We are enabled to give, this morning, (by telegraph from Baltimore,) the main facts, in brief, of the attack on Fort Sumter by our iron-clads, on Tuesday last.

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired spurred the start of the Civil War.

Sumter was an offshore stronghold, and Anderson saw an attack coming. Larson notes that South Carolina’s secession and Anderson’s move to Fort Sumter “energized the advocates of disunion ...

This week we'll be talking with Richard Hatcher, author of the book, Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter and the Civil War. Construction of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor began after British forces ...

1 of 3 | This photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports ...