It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

Edward McCrady has chosen to portray with unexampled fullness or detail the history of the development of his native State, South Carolina, first under the proprietary and next under royal ...

The aftermath of the Civil War... brought black folk into political power in a number of places in the South. The first South Carolina state ... measures were passed during that period that ...

During the next 80 years ... Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy, but the state started to see change ...

The title borrows Christensen’s wording about his work to preserve, or rescue, identities of soldiers buried during ... South Carolina ― and who put them there. Fascinated with the Civil War ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was also enslaved, worked in a wealthy household, and Smalls’ early life was ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. There, thousands of Black ...