One of the most important battles in this theater was the one that began the Civil War: the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Battle of Fort Sumter started on April 12, 1861 ...

In the years before the start of the Civil War, marked by the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, the U.S. military was already constructing defensive fortifications around major cities ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of ... The rebels never bothered to fill the gap. This is a map of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip created from Union reconnaissance ...

On Museum Educator Ruth Reeder’s Civil War era map of Alexandria ... roads that parallel the rifle trenches that ran between the forts that defended the city’s turnpikes in the Civil War ...

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 ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...