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Charleston has lot of freebies for visitors

...From the seawall one can gaze out to the harbor and Fort Sumter, upon which the first shots of the Civil War were fired...offers stunning views of Charleston Harbor, the city, Fort Sumter and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. It's a 2.7-mile...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/2013-04-06/charleston-has-lot-freebies-visitor
Shells preserved in place where they smashed into Fort Sumter 150 years ago

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. - They are there just where they landed in Fort Sumter a century and a half ago ? three Union...the chief of resource management at the Fort Sumter National Monument.Under the agreement...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-23/shells-preserved-place-where-
Ancestors fought brave fight

...Francis DuPont to try to recapture Fort Sumter on April 17, 1863. The Confederate...firepower ? fired only 154 rounds on Fort Sumter. The CSA scored 2,209 hits on the Union fleet from Fort Sumter. Most of the fleet suffered heavy...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2012-06-12/ancestors-fought-brave-f
Aiken author explores Civil War's Confederate currency

...printed in 1861 and delivered to the Confederate capital of Montgomery, Ala., just days before the shelling of Fort Sumter officially opened the war.The bills were printed in sheets of four bills ? in denominations of $1,000, $500...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-07-04/aiken-author-explores-civil-
Plan aims to fix up historic S.C. lighthouse

...said Rick Dorrance, the chief of resource management at Fort Sumter National Monument."They are beautiful and they are...Wisconsin-based United States Lighthouse Society.Fort Sumter National Monument includes the fort in the harbor where...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-04/plan-aims-fix-historic-sc-lighthous
Visitation hits record at Fort Sumter

...took the tour boat last year to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to see where...continues this year.Visitation at Fort Sumter was up another 11 percent during...ranger of the U.S. Park Service Fort Sumter National Monument which includes...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-04-06/visitation-hits-record-fort-sumter
Visitors to flock to mountains, beach for Labor Day weekend

...Auto Club office in Augusta on Tuesday to make sure he doesn't make a wrong turn traveling to a family reunion at Fort Sumter this Labor Day weekend.He will be among an estimated 31.5 million expected to travel more than 50 miles from home...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-08-30/visitors-flock-mountains-bea
Across the region

...Service to erect a memorial in Liberty Square.The square is a park owned by the Park Service near the entrance to the Fort Sumter National Monument Visitors Center, where tourists board boats to visit the fort in Charleston Harbor. Confederate...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2011-09-28/across-region
SC events mark little-known Civil War incident

...Union ironclad in an attack on Fort Sumter, and after the war served in the...challenge he faces is when he gets past Fort Sumter, he has to go past the federal...ironclad USS Keokuk in an assault on Fort Sumter, held by the Confederates. The...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-05-05/sc-events-mark-little-known-
Civil War paintings can be viewed online

...audience of Civil War buffs and scholars.Chapman was stationed in Charleston in 1863 and early 1864. He sketched Fort Sumter, where the war began in 1861, in addition to batteries around the city held by the South until just before the war...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-07-18/civil-war-paintings-can-be-vi