A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

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 ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

At its most prepared, Fort Point bristled with weaponry: nine 10-inch and seventeen 8-inch Columbiads, eleven 32-pounder ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter and S.C. Gov ... he want his legacy to be the one responsible for starting the American Civil War. Historians still debate the meaning of Lincoln’s message.

To gain deeper insight, Moore, along with the project’s USCT Ancestry Committee and Virginia Tech students, collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...