SENECA FALLS, Thursday, Jan. 3. Seneca Falls is firing a hundred guns in honor of Major ANDERSON, of Fort Sumter, and Secretaries HOLT and STANTON, for their gallant and patriotic services in the ...

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Sumter was, to the South, "a standing menace." The fort, and its 75 men, were commanded by Major Robert Anderson. A Kentuckian by birth, he'd taught artillery tactics at West Point. Confederate ...

Exhibits at Fort Sumter help explain the tensions that led South Carolina to be the first state to secede the union. Visitors can also see the flag Major General Robert Anderson raised there in 1865 ...