Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in South Carolina that fired on Fort Sumter to open the war in April 1861. The sensors and modern rust-fighting epoxy coatings are being used to preserve historic siege and garrison guns, some of which were [...]
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Civil war re-enactment at the Skirmish At Gamble’s Hotel
March 12th, 2013 
javal All weekend long visitors were treated to beautiful scenery and living history thanks to the Gambles Hotel Civil War re-enactment; It is an annual event and a rich part of Florence county history. The event is hosted by the 23rd SC Infantry, which is a group of enthusiasts that portray Confederate soldiers of the Civil [...]
Play breathes life into story of little-known Civil War hero
September 24th, 2012 javal Unsuspecting visitors to the State Museum found out Saturday that 150 years after hoodwinking Confederate forces in Charleston Harbor, Civil War Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls is still a surprise. While browsing the fourth-floor cultural history displays at the museum, some of the visitors were invited to participate in a scripted live play about the little-known [...]
USC Archaeologists Complete Survey of Charleston Harbor Civil War Naval Battlefield
September 18th, 2012 javal What remains of a five-year siege for control of Charleston Harbor during the Civil War now lay in watery graves amid the harbor’s channels and under the beaches of bordering sea islands. Thanks to a team of archaeologists at the University of South Carolina, the Charleston Harbor naval battlefield has been mapped for the first [...]
Watery battlefield in Charleston Harbor mapped
September 10th, 2012 javal Scientists from the University of South Carolina have finished the almost four-year project of mapping Civil War wrecks in Charleston Harbor. The work of James Spirek and others at the university’s Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology found the location of the so-called Stone Fleet and of 13 wrecked Confederate blockade runners. Read More>>
Confederate receivers
September 4th, 2012 javal While Confederate troops were in the field during the Civil War, lawyers called receivers were back on the home front seizing millions of dollars of property owned by anyone thought to have Union leanings. Rodney Steward, a historian at the University of South Carolina-Salkahatchie, says the little-known system tore at morale in the South as [...]
“Poor Fort Sumter”: Museum curator describes destruction
August 28th, 2012 javal “Poor Fort Sumter.” That’s how SC State Museum Curator of History JoAnn Zise described its destruction during the Civil War. “When you see the ruins, it was pretty bad,” she said. “Fort Sumter was bombarded at the beginning of the war and starting in the fall of 1863, it was just being turned into rubble. [...]
Secessionville’s importance often overlooked
June 15th, 2012 javal As Civil War battles go, Secessionville isn’t nearly as famous as Gettysburg or Bull Run. Historians don’t consider it remotely as important as Shiloh or Antietam. In fact, outside of Charleston, the James Island battle is basically a footnote to history. But if it had gone the other way, Secessionville today might be considered one [...]