Visit Fort Sumter and you'll see a historic Civil War-era flag collection. It includes a Palmetto Guard flag, a U.S. 33-star storm flag and U.S. 33-star garrison flags. The banners have been there 20 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — It sits in the middle of Charleston Harbor, 3.4 miles from the southside of town, but it was what happened at Fort Sumter that forever changed this country and started a bloody four ...

(Sullivans Island-AP) June 26, 2006 - The National Park Service has signed a new 10-year-contract with Fort Sumter Tours to provide service for visitors to Fort Sumter in Charleston. The fort is ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT - Re-enactors played "Yankee Doodle" as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter's surrender to Confederate attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down ...

(Charleston-AP) Aug. 24, 2004 - The director of the National Park Service has gotten a good look at the problems facing Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Fran Mainella says she's touring the 388 sites ...

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On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – An item believed to be an old cannonball was safely removed from Fort Sumter over the weekend. The fort, now a popular tourist destination that sits on an island in the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the National Park Service. The Network to Freedom program consists of sites, programs, ...