Fort Sumter is a place that lives in history as one of the great construction feats of all time. Suzannah Smith Miles is a writer and Lowcountry and Civil War historian.

The 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter sparked the American Civil War. ... the Union shot 50,000 projectiles at the building. Then, on February 18, 1865, Charleston was surrendered to the Union.

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Taliah Spann, a student participating in the Sumter Youth Corps program, vaults over the first hurdles at the Fit to Win II course. Managed by the Sumter ...

The walls at Fort Sumter, a historic site and tourist attraction in Charleston Harbor, have become "wavy" as pounding seas and poorly placed reinforcing rocks scrape at the exterior.

THE CHIVALRY AT THE SIEGE OF FORT SUMTER. Share full article. May 26, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 26, 1861, Page 2 Buy Reprints.

Fort Sumter was only one in a series of imposing masonry fortresses, decades in the building, ... MORE FORT SUMTER AND CIVIL WAR COVERAGE. Full Coverage: Civil War Sesquicentennial; ...

The Civil War began 155 years ago, when Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter. ... And, as these photographs show, it left its physical mark on the building.

During the years preceding the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, often considered the start of the Civil War, the U.S. military was already busy building defensive fortifications around major cities.

Fort Sumter is in two major bombardments: The first one is the opening shots of the Civil War starting on April 12, 1861. There is a 34-hour bombardment of this fort.

Finally, on April 13, the garrison at Fort Sumter surrendered. In all, there were only two deaths — one Union, one Confederate, both killed by malfunctioning cannons.