The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

President Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a ...

The South Carolina General Assembly passed a bill earlier this year to erect a monument to Robert Smalls, a Beaufort native and Civil War hero. The monument will be placed on the State House grounds, ...

Decade of Disunion How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 By Robert W. Merry Simon & Schuster. 514 pp. $35 ...

In South Carolina, the remains of 21 Confederate soldiers recovered from forgotten graves beneath the stands of a military college's football stadium were reburied in 2005.

Civil War: A State Divided by Conflict After the Revolution, South Carolina remained a key state in the growing United States, but the legacy of slavery continued to shape its society and politics ...

¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in its capital, Columbia. During the Civil War, Robert Smalls, a native of the Gullah Geechee ...

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood has introduced legislation to rename the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Bloomington. If ...

It's been 150 years since South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union ahead of Civil War, and today the legacy of that watershed moment in American history remains a flashpoint ...

When he was 32, he met and married a young widow named Anne Amelia Payne, who took Sands as her last name. In April 1861, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, igniting the Civil War.