Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC

Exactly 151 years later on April 12 DH and I arrived at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.  It is an historical site that should be visited by all visitors to the city.  The museum there is small but excellent.  We were reminded again about the ways in which the Civil War changed the face of our nation in many, many significant ways: socially, economically and racially. The Fort is a treasure.

The cannon at the top is the one that made the first shot from the fort after it was fired upon by South Carolina Confederate troops from nearby Fort Johnson--the start of a two-day bombardment that resulted in the surrender of Fort Sumter by Union troops. But that was not the end...just the beginning of a long siege and a war that cost our nation more than bargained for at the beginning of the Civil War.