President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Curious crowds gathered around swabs, microscopes and a simulated military working dog as two young Soldiers stationed at ...

Davis immediately instructed Beauregard that under no circumstances was he to allow provisions to reach Fort Sumter. The Pocahontas, with 95 men and six cannons, departed Norfolk, Va., heading south.