Where the War Began ; Fort Sumter Tour Proves Worthy Even for Non-History Buffs.

Columbia Daily Tribune › February 24, 2008

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Charlestown, S.C. - The Union built it, the Union occupied it, the Confederates took it and the Union then destroyed it. Oh, yeah, and the Civil War started here.

There's also a lot of convoluted history after the War Between the States, and that's all relayed in presentations and plaques at Fort Sumter, now a historic site administered by the National Park Service.

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Where the War Began ; Fort Sumter Tour Proves Worthy Even for Non-History Buffs.

There's only one way to get to Fort Sumter, which is on an artificial island in the entrance to Charlestown Harbor. That i...

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