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Fort Moultrie, just outside of Charleston and opposite of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter as we approached it from the water. Fort Sumter is where the first shot of the Civil War was fired. One of Glorene's Great Uncles Edmund Ruffin, keeps the dubious fame as being the person to fire the first shot at the fort and the first shot of the Civil War
This is a view form the fort looking towards Charleston. The Union forces never did fire a shot at Charleston from the fort. Instead, they withstood a withering fire from the surrounding Confederate shore batteries until they ran low on food. They surrendered the fort but were allowed to leave by boat for New York
Here is one of the cannon inside the lower part of Fort Sumter. After the Confederates took over the fort they were bombarded throughout the war by the Union until nothing was left but rubble. The lower portions of the fort survived buried under the rubble
Glorene
A view of Charleston Harbor. Battery Row is in the background