A burrowing owl is calling the walls of Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor home. Sightings of the bird in Charleston are ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The Confederate flag is no longer flying over Fort Sumter. The National Park Service said the flag, along with other historic replicas, was taken down last week in the wake of ...

Fort Sumter National Monument has seen a huge decrease in visitors compared with last year due to the coronavirus, but also potentially because of the dialogue about racism and Confederate monuments ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Most people who visit Fort Sumter go there wanting to learn more about how and where the Civil War started. It all began at this island fortress, in Charleston Harbor, 151 years ago ...

A Civil War-era cannonball was discovered and safely removed at Fort Sumter National Historic Park in South Carolina on Saturday, according to local news reports. Emergency services were called to the ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) - A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain howitzer ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT — Re-enactors played "Yankee Doodle" as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter's surrender to Confederate attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down ...

The Civil War began here shortly before dawn when a mortar on the starlit beach fired a single shot high into the sky over this proud and elegant city. From Fort Sumter, the gun's target out in the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Confederate gunners fired at a schooner that mistook the lighthouse at Charleston for that of Savannah, Ga., its destination. The Rhoda H. Shannon escaped without serious damage or ...