One of the most important battles in this theater was the one that began the Civil War: the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Battle of Fort Sumter started on April 12, 1861 ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

The Confederate attack on South Carolina’s Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 was the first conflict of the Civil War, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. By April 14, federal troops surrendered ...

He spent a decade in the US House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned ...