The Confederate documents, of which I ave a synopsis in my last letter, covered the period from the outbreak of secessia to the bombardment of Fort Sumter ... the time it was attacked by Admiral ...

9. General Cooper: Last night thirty of the launches of the enemy attacked Fort Sumter. Preparations had been made for the event. At a concerted signal, all the batteries bearing on Sumter ...

Predictably, Bezos' defense failed more miserably than the Union Army at Fort Sumter in 1861. The Post won’t stop ...

While men like Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises believed in “just” war, nonetheless, they did not believe that wars lead ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire.

A few months later, the Confederate Army attacked Fort Sumter. The Civil War had begun. During the war, Whitman was most moved by the suffering of soldiers on both sides of the conflict ...

DODGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND AT FORT DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. NOW, HER FAMILY SAYS THE ATTACK CAUGHT ON VIDEO IS THE LAST STRAW. NOW WE WANT TO WARN YOU. THE VIDEO IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH.

William Waud’s sketches predate the attack on Fort Sumter and offer a glimpse into the last days of the prewar South. He was sketching among the crowds watching from the seawall as Confederate ...

(RNS) — Often the prelude to a cataclysm is a single moment — a shot is fired at Fort Sumter or in Sarajevo ... information to more effectively attack. The lines of agony run across the ...