South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860, and existing briefly as an independent state before becoming one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in F
Fort Sumter, 1861, flying the Confederate flag after the fort's capture from the U.S. by the Confederacy.
Congressman Robert Smalls
54th Massachusetts Regiment charging towards Fort Wagner
The local Black population was delighted to see United States Colored Troops marching into Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1865, singing "John Brown's Body".
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South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern, South Atlantic and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, an
South Carolina in the American Civil War
…war. The retaking of Charleston in February 1865, and raising the flag (the same flag) again at Fort Sumter, was used for the Union symbol of victory. South Carolina provided around 60,000 troops for the Confederate Army. As the war progressed, former slaves and free blacks of South Carolina joined U.S. Colored…
Released in 2000
Top left, the shores of Florida and the future Carolina explored in 1500 and showed in 1502 on the Cantino planisphere
A twenty-dollar banknote issued by South Carolina in 1777
Millford Plantation built 1839–41, is an example of Greek Revival architecture