Now, the sandbar connects James Island and Fort Sumter from mid tide to low tide. "It has grown to be one of the most popular boating beaches in the Charleston Harbor," Sveum wrote in the renaming ...

There is a great deal of speculation as to the intentions of the Administration in regard to reinforcing Fort Sumter ... and force an entrance inta the harbor regardless of consequences.

Davis and Pickens now had two options: Either capture Fort Sumter before those ships arrived or, they incorrectly assumed, allow armed warships to enter Charleston Harbor. Editor’s note ...

states authoritatively that the dispatches from Washington in the New-York Herald, stating that Gen. WOOL had advised the surrender of Fort Sumpter, are without foundation. Advertisement ...