Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...
As March slipped into April in 1861, America stood at a crossroads. About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham ...
If you think the country is hopelessly divided now, you should’ve seen us 165 years ago today. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, troops on James Island fired a shell high over Fort Sumter, its explosion ...
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