Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time. In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between North ...

CHARLESTON — When the government shut down Oct. 1, tours to Fort Sumter abruptly ceased, as funding to staff national parks across the country was cut off. But the Charleston excursions to and from ...

Fort Sumter will reopen to visitors on Friday, allowing access to the historic fort for the first time since it and other National Parks sites across the U.S. closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The Confederate flag is no longer flying over Fort Sumter. The National Park Service said the flag, along with other historic replicas, was taken down last week in the wake of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — More than 120 visitors toured Fort Sumter for the first time in 24 days. The partial government shutdown meant national parks service workers were not able to open Fort ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- The course of American history was forever changed off our coast. The battle between the Confederacy and the Union began with a single shot -- fired from Fort Johnson, aimed ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sumter after the bombardment. Stereograph from The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. When South Carolina seceded from the Union in ...

Fort Sumter is an island built of rock and granite at the mouth of Charleston's harbor, accessible only by boat. It was federal government property, and after South Carolina seceded, Confederate ...