Previously found war relics Relics from the Civil War have been discovered in South Carolina before. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew unearthed Civil War cannonballs from the sand on Folly Beach.

“Look at that. It’s a Civil War belt buckle. Look, it’s in perfect shape.” Bryant said he found the buckle tucked between some rocks in a spot that would normally be underwater.

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 ...

A cleanup of toxic waste in a South Carolina river netted something positive: historic artifacts. In the river's debris, weapons from the Civil War were found. The Congee River was hiding ...

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period through the American Revolution and into the turbulence of the Civil War.

South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Dressed in 19th century period costume and standing on the spot where South Carolina seceded from the United States and set off the Civil War 150 years ago ...