A burrowing owl is calling the walls of Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor home. Sightings of the bird in Charleston are rare, exciting bird watchers.

Fort Sumter National Monument has seen a huge decrease in visitors compared with last year due to the coronavirus, but also potentially because of the dialogue about racism and Confederate monuments ...

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery batteries surrounding Fort Sumter opened fire. It was the beginning of a war that consumed the nation for the next four years, left more than ...

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 ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. -- The looming shutdown of the federal government includes the National Parks Service, which could mean events commemorating the start of the Civil War with a ...

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 ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) - A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain howitzer ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — American historians did what they do best this weekend and that’s tell the story of history. The first shots of the Civil War took place in Charleston at Fort ...

(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, SC (WCSC) - Sunday marks the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and local businesses are still feeling the effects. Many national parks are closed including Fort Sumter, but on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Civil War re-enactors raised an American flag at the Fort Sumter National Monument during a ceremony on Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the symbolic end to ...