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 ...

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 ...

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. — Parkway School's 8th-grade classes recently traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, for a hands-on history ...

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 ...

If you think the country is hopelessly divided now, you should’ve seen us 165 years ago today. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, troops on James Island fired a shell high over Fort Sumter, its explosion ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The historic site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired is no longer flying versions of the Confederate flag above it. The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags ...