Author Erik Larson visits Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., where he discusses "the single most consequential day in American ...

(These could be seen as the first shots fired in the Civil War, but the true point of no return wouldn’t come for another few months.) By April, the garrison at Fort Sumter was running low on food.

So many books on the American Civil War have been published in the past 160 years that it’s been estimated they average out to at least one per day since the surrender at Appomattox. Still, they keep ...

The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by Gov. J.B.

Marche says that when the first civil war happened in the 1860s, very few people in America saw it coming – even when the first battle began, at Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina.

The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is ... attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Illinois Gov.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum introduced a new item dating back to the Civil War on Tuesday.

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Illinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to the presidential library ...

(AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among ... forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance ...