The mounting of a large cannon on the north front of the War Department this morning attracted quite a crowd. The gun was originally a Rodman-Columbiad, and was in Fort Sumter when the civil war ...

Boom! A single cannon shell burst in a flash of light high above Fort Sumter. This was the signal for the Confederate attack on the U.S. fort to begin. It was also the moment our Civil War began ...

recalling a visit to Fort Sumter as a child. "Some of it was rubble from all the cannon fire that had been shot at it. There were still cannonballs in some of the mortar. To a little 12-year-old ...

Both Union and Confederate re-enactors are camping out at historic sites, including Fort Moultrie. Back in 1861, it was one of the Confederate strongholds that fired on Fort Sumter. Enlarge this image ...

Lincoln held fast, but the Confederacy blinked and Southern cannon opened fire on Fort Sumter. Did Lincoln’s actions to preserve the Union maneuver the Confederates into going on the attack first?

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter ... hearing the war of cannon opening on ...

Hutson Ford, now residing in Washington, a forty-pound cannon ball fired from Fort Sumter at the beginning of the engagement on April 12, 1861, at the opening of the civil war. "This cannon ball ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – An item believed to be an old cannonball was safely removed from Fort Sumter over the weekend. The fort, now a popular tourist destination that sits on an island in the ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston ... initiating cannon fire from Fort Moultrie. Though a few shots hit the ...

The First To Die The first shots of the War Between the States were fired at Fort Sumter in South ... A premature discharge from one cannon caused an explosion that killed Pvt.