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 ...
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
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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 ...
Proceeding inward, and keeping the map of our finer harbor in view, with due corrections for distances, and the substitution of Moultrie for Hamilton, Sumter ... of South Carolina which, even ...
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