One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12 ... 26, 1860, a week after South Carolina seceded from the United States. State representatives had met both before and after the secession ...

a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

Many travelers say you can't leave Charleston without strolling this ... live oaks in nearby White Point Garden where several Civil War relics and memorials commemorate the city's role in the ...