Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fort Pickens is pictured in an engraving in 1861. Pickens: The first serious confrontation of the Civil War happened in Pensacola ...

KURE BEACH — Fort Fisher State Historic Site will host a special public program on Saturday, May 30, exploring Civil War art ...

Fort Fisher State Historic Site will kick off its summer season with a public program featuring Civil War art displays and live artillery demonstrations.

“Slavery to Soldier,” a program about Black soldiers fighting in the Civil War, will be presented from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27, and from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 28, at Forts Randolph & ...

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) — Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park is inviting the public to commemorate the 165th anniversary of the opening shots of the American Civil War on ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

Forgotten American forts often tell strange stories, often far more interesting than the famous ones. Some were abandoned, ...

Col. Elmer Ellsworth by the Mathew Brady Studio. The 150th anniversary of Ellsworth’s death is the subject of an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The exterior ...