When Confederate forces opened fire April 12, 1861, on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., it signaled the start of the Civil War. “President Abraham Lincoln recognized Washington, D.C., lay vulnerable ...

For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt's most notable ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Civil War revolver that was stolen more than 30 years ago from the Museum of the Confederacy has turned up again.Collections Manager Catherine Wright tells WTVR-TV that the ...

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – 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 ...