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Charleston

RESEARCHERS PREPARE TO LOOK INSIDE THE LONG-BURIED CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE

In 1860, Southern delegates bolted the Democratic convention at Charleston. An eyewitness describes the first giant step toward secession

At Fort Wagner the Negro soldier was asked to prove the worth of the “powerful black hand”

In the spring of 1863 the Union government tried hard to break into the strongly defended harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

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