Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new ...

Hatcher covers the subsequent fighting around the harbor, and Sumter’s role in it, such as the famous assault on Battery Wagner led by the 54th Massachusetts (July 18, 1863), the unsuccessful naval ...

Key Highlight: Fort Sumter is a must-see, especially for kids and history buffs. You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861.

CHARLESTON, Saturday, April 15, 1865. I have already given you as full a report as your crowded columns will admit, of the proceedings at Fort Sumter on the occasion of the raising of the national ...