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HABcore Inc.’s goal of constructing a 25-unit apartment building on the former Fort Monmouth for veterans and homeless ...
For two years after the capture of Sumter, the fort was not significantly involved in the war, though the Confederacy continued work on the place and elaborated the other defenses of the harbor. This ...
McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...
The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort ... people in the Charleston Harbor during the Civil War ...
Proceeding inward, and keeping the map of our finer harbor in view ... exact for all practical purposes. Fort Moultrie, on the right, is distant from Sumter at the left, a fraction over a mile ...
Fort Sumter will be officially listed in the program as "Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbor." Fort Sumter was the target of the first shots of the Civil War and once it was held by Confederate ...
The firing upon Sumter and other rebel works ... exposing to open view a large portion of the interior of the fort. A small body of men are occasionally seen running round the base of the ...
The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time. In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between ...