While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor ... who’d debarked from a train on their way to Washington. Eight rioters, one bystander and three soldiers ...

Intended to defend Washington, D.C. from river approaches, Fort Washington was garrisoned by U.S. Marines during the Civil War. The current masonry structure, built in 1824, along with concrete ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

The fields along Fox’s Gap in central Maryland are mostly ... and bayonet combat of the Civil War. Our route continued north past the first monument to George Washington, a tall, stone beehive ...

Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April ... without notifying Washington first. A Dec. 27 message from Anderson to Floyd confirmed he had “abandoned Fort Moultrie because I was ...