CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Park will commemorate the 248 Anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island with Carolina Day events. Carolina Day is observed ...

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will commemorate the 247th Anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island with programs and weapon firing ...

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will commemorate the 248th Anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island with programs and weapon firing demonstrations on Saturday, June 29 and ...

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

(WHTM) — On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. At the time U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson commanded ...

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 — When the government shut down Oct. 1, tours to Fort Sumter abruptly ceased, as funding to staff national parks across the country was cut off. But the Charleston excursions to and from ...

FORT SUMTER, S.C. -- It's been 150 years since the Confederates opened fire on this fortress, which is located on a small man-made island off the coast of Charleston. Those opening salvos were fired ...

Mary Long walks through the barricades and halls of two historically important sea forts. Mary Long walks through the barricades and halls of the two historically important South Carolina sea forts ...

A retired National Parks historian for Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Richard Hatcher opens this new work on the history of Sumter with a look at its origins, as part of the nation’s coastal defense ...