South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually become President until his inauguration on March 4th, 1861 in Washington. During the three months between his ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

During the next 80 years ... plunging the nation into the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy, but ...

It began only months after Southern states seceded from the Union, when Southern troops attacked and captured the federally held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next four years ...

A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina ... a home on the land before the beginning of the Civil War, but it was lost during the burning of Bluffton in June 1863, when Union ...