During the winter of 1860-61, the citizens of Charleston (map), South Carolina ... where atop the lonely bulk of Fort Sumter the Stars and Stripes still flew (pictures of Fort Sumter before ...

The Charlestonians, it seems, are looking forward with fearful forebodings to that scarlet date, the 15th of April -- the anniversary of the rebel assault on Fort Sumter. They have come to the ...

Located in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina’s secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the ...

A letter received yesterday by an officer of the Army in this City, from an officer in Fort Sumter, dated on the evening of the 22d, says that all were well within the Fort. He adds that at noon ...