More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

Major Robert Anderson, decided to surrender the fort. Confederate cannons had launched more than 3,000 rounds during the bombardment, said Rick Hatcher, a historian at Fort Sumter National ...

BEAUREGARD and Major ANDERSON previous to the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Only a telegraphic abstract has been previously published: [Copy.] HEAD-QUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C.S.A., CHARLESTON ...

History's "dead guys" include Major Robert Anderson and General ... when the United States was on the brink of civil war. Anderson was charged with holding Fort Sumter for the United States.

Fort Sumter, though located in seceded territory ... On the morning of April 12, Confederate artillery under General PGT Beauregard began the bombardment. Major Robert Anderson, commanding the Union ...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month ...

Cast adrift by the Government, Major Anderson stretched his orders beyond the snapping point, moved his men from Moultrie to Fort Sumter by night. When Southerners in Washington got the word ...

Under these circumstances, we must express our regret that major Anderson should have taken ... came in consequence of the removal of troops to Fort Sumter. That event could not have been known ...

General Beauregard, of the brand-new Confederacy, negotiated with the Union’s Major Anderson ... in 1865. “Fort” Wagner, the Confederate earthwork that was built to protect Sumter, a ...