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 ...

Travelers who heard about National Park Service layoffs in February may have reconsidered visits, but here’s what to know ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where ... visit the National Park Service website. Charleston’s Old South Carriage Historic Horse & Carriage Tour (8832 reviews) ...

The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and ... and at 1pm a park ranger will lead a walking tour of the Fort Moultrie grounds to show ...

Officials with the National Park Service said the nearly 50 ... first phase of a project to ultimately replace the Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter docks and enhance the Liberty Square dock in ...

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 ... walls of Moultrie to Fort Sumter.

Fort Sumter National Monument Superintendent Tim Stone said Monday the flags will be part of an historical display at the fort where the Civil War began. The display will include flags that flew ...

A retired National Parks historian for Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Richard Hatcher opens this ... a tourist attraction and its transfer to the National Park Service. In telling the story of the fort, ...