Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...

GREENVILLE — Well, it’s not much to look at. But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — ...

If you think the country is hopelessly divided now, you should’ve seen us 165 years ago today. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, troops on James Island fired a shell high over Fort Sumter, its explosion ...