The Civil War began at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC. Confederate gunners fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. Ft. Sumter fell 34 hours later.

Atop it, five Civil War-era flags flap in the sea breeze beside ... said Tim Stone, superintendent of Fort Sumter National Monument. "Could they in any way have thought that this was going to ...

The Civil War might as easily have erupted at Fort Pickens, outside Pensacola, Florida, as at Fort Sumter. Seen as easier to defend than smaller bastions nearby, both forts had been hastily ...

Authorized in 1827 by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Fort Sumter was still not finished when the nation slid into civil war over sectional issues. Nevertheless, it became the “flashpoint for the ...

Though the attack claimed no soldiers’ lives in the time before the Union forces surrendered Fort Sumter, it would live in history as the battle that formally began the Civil War. And ...

FORT SUMTER, S.C. -- The nation's bloodiest war started with a historic battle in which no one died. The Civil War, a conflict that would end with about 620,000 fatalities, began at Fort Sumter on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort ... Harbor during the Civil War, including one led by Robert ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will commemorate the first shots of the American Civil War on April 15 and April 16 with a special event.

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 ...