The following is an extract from a letter received in Albany from an officer of the United States Army on duty at Fort Sumter ... the last and to stand by our flag; and this you well know.

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 ...

CHARLESTON Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the fort’s outer wall following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at ...