On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

Fort Sumter National Monument is perched on a small ... visit the National Park Service website. Charleston’s Old South Carriage Historic Horse & Carriage Tour (8118 reviews) ...

Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Charleston’s ...

over Charleston Harbor before snatching a red ribbon from poles held by volunteers at the end of the old Fort Sumter Hotel pier at the foot of King Street. Beverly E. “Bevo” Howard was an ...