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.

Robert Anderson, the reserved, gray-haired U.S. Army officer who held Fort Sumter for half ... the first shot fired by us would light the flames of a civil war that would convulse the world.” ...

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 ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

Until recently, a big lantern incorporating the latest in Fresnel lenses had capped the fort's lighthouse, but in preparing for war ... first shot, there was again only quiet. At Sumter, clocks ...

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

The Demon of Unrest” zooms in on a place, time and small group of actors whose individual dramas encapsulate broader events ...