A burrowing owl is calling the walls of Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor home. Sightings of the bird in Charleston are ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — American historians did what they do best this weekend and that’s tell the story of history. The first shots of the Civil War took place in Charleston at Fort ...

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 ...

Fort Sumter National Monument has seen a huge decrease in visitors compared with last year due to the coronavirus, but also potentially because of the dialogue about racism and Confederate monuments ...

A Civil War-era cannonball was discovered and safely removed at Fort Sumter National Historic Park in South Carolina on Saturday, according to local news reports. Emergency services were called to the ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) - A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain howitzer ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Most people who visit Fort Sumter go there wanting to learn more about how and where the Civil War started. It all began at this island fortress, in Charleston Harbor, 151 years ago ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Confederate gunners fired at a schooner that mistook the lighthouse at Charleston for that of Savannah, Ga., its destination. The Rhoda H. Shannon escaped without serious damage or ...

The Civil War began here shortly before dawn when a mortar on the starlit beach fired a single shot high into the sky over this proud and elegant city. From Fort Sumter, the gun's target out in the ...

In 1861, Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson was forced to lower the American flag and surrender Fort Sumter, S.C., to Confederate forces after the first battle of the Civil War. Four years later, on April 14, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...