Fort Sumter, the Glossary

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1. 112 relations: A&E Networks, Abner Doubleday, Abraham Lincoln, American Battlefield Trust, American Civil War, Ancestry.com, Artificial island, Artillery battery, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Fort Sumter, Breakwater (structure), Brigadier general, British Empire, Burning of Washington, Cannon, Casemate, Castle Pinckney, Charles L. Webster and Company, Charleston Bar, Charleston church shooting, Charleston, South Carolina, Columbiad, Commander (United States), Confederate States of America, CSS Chicora, Dahlgren gun, Depth sounding, Disappearing gun, Edmund Ruffin, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Facebook, First day of issue, Flag of South Carolina, Flag of the United States, Flags of the Confederate States of America, Fort Johnson (South Carolina), Fort Moultrie, Fort Pickens, Fort Sumter, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Fort Sumter Flag, Fort Wagner, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gazaway Bugg Lamar, Gillmore Medal, Grenade, Gun laying, Gustavus Fox, Harper (publisher), Henry Ward Beecher, ... Expand index (62 more) »

2. 1829 establishments in South Carolina
3. 1947 disestablishments in South Carolina
4. American Civil War museums in South Carolina
5. Archaeological sites in South Carolina
6. Forts in South Carolina
7. Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
8. Military installations closed in 1947
9. Military installations established in 1829
10. Military installations of the Confederate States of America
11. Sea forts
12. South Carolina in the American Civil War
13. Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials

A&E Networks

A&E Television Networks, LLC, stylized as A+E NETWORKS, is an American multinational broadcasting company that is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its Entertainment division.

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Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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American Battlefield Trust

The American Battlefield Trust is a charitable organization (501(c)(3)) whose primary focus is in the preservation of battlefields of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War, through the acquisition of battlefield land.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Artificial island

An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed through natural processes.

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Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Battle of Fort Sumter

The Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia.

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Breakwater (structure)

A breakwater is a permanent structure constructed at a coastal area to protect against tides, currents, waves, and storm surges.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Burning of Washington

The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral Sir John Warren's Chesapeake campaign.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Casemate

A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.

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Castle Pinckney

Castle Pinckney is a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1810. Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckney are American Civil War forts, American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places, forts in South Carolina, forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina and south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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Charles L. Webster and Company

Samuel Clemens founded ''Charles L. Webster and Company'' in 1884. The firm closed in 1894 after Clemens declared bankruptcy.Photo: '''Sarony''' '''''1895''''' Charles L. Webster and Company was an American subscription publishing firm founded in New York in 1884 by author and journalist Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain.

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Charleston Bar

Charleston Bar is a series of submerged shoals lying about eight miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

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Charleston church shooting

The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Columbiad

The columbiad was a large-caliber, smoothbore, muzzle-loading cannon able to fire heavy projectiles at both high and low trajectories.

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Commander (United States)

In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military billet title—the designation of someone who manages living quarters or a base—depending on the branch of service.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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CSS Chicora

CSS Chicora was a Confederate ironclad ram that fought in the American Civil War.

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Dahlgren gun

Dahlgren guns were muzzle-loading naval gun designed by Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren USN (November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870), mostly used in the period of the American Civil War.

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Depth sounding

Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water.

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Disappearing gun

A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.

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Edmund Ruffin

Edmund Ruffin III (January 5, 1794 – June 17, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia planter who served in the Virginia Senate from 1823 to 1827.

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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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First day of issue

A first day of issue cover or first day cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for useBennett, Russell and Watson, James; Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978) within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority.

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Flag of South Carolina

The flag of South Carolina is a symbol of the U.S. state of South Carolina consisting of a blue field with a white palmetto tree and white crescent.

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Flag of the United States

The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.

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Flags of the Confederate States of America

The flags of the Confederate States of America have a history of three successive designs during the American Civil War.

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Fort Johnson (South Carolina)

Fort Johnson is a state-owned historic site of military and political significance located on the northeast point of James Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. Fort Sumter and Fort Johnson (South Carolina) are American Civil War forts, forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina and south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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Fort Moultrie

Fort Moultrie is a series of fortifications on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, built to protect the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Fort Sumter and fort Moultrie are American Civil War forts, American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places, forts in South Carolina, forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina, historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina, military installations of the Confederate States of America and south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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Fort Pickens

Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. Fort Sumter and fort Pickens are American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places and military installations closed in 1947.

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion. Fort Sumter and fort Sumter are 1829 establishments in South Carolina, 1947 disestablishments in South Carolina, American Civil War forts, American Civil War museums in South Carolina, American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places, Archaeological sites in South Carolina, coastal fortifications, forts in South Carolina, forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina, historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina, military installations closed in 1947, military installations established in 1829, military installations of the Confederate States of America, sea forts, south Carolina in the American Civil War and Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials.

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Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Charleston County, in coastal South Carolina.

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Fort Sumter Flag

The Fort Sumter Flag is a historic United States flag with a distinctive, diamond-shaped pattern of 33 stars. Fort Sumter and Fort Sumter Flag are south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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Fort Wagner

Fort Wagner or Battery Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter and fort Wagner are forts in South Carolina.

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Francis Wilkinson Pickens

Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805/1807January 25, 1869) was a politician who served as governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States.

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Gazaway Bugg Lamar

Gazaway Bugg Lamar (October 2, 1798 – October 5, 1874) was an American slave owner and merchant in cotton and shipping in Savannah, Georgia, and a steamboat pioneer.

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Gillmore Medal

The Gillmore Medal is a military decoration of the United States Army which was first issued on October 28, 1863.

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Grenade

A grenade is an explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher.

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Gun laying

Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece or turret, such as a gun, howitzer, or mortar, on land, at sea, or in air, against surface or aerial targets.

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Gustavus Fox

Gustavus Vasa Fox (June 13, 1821 – October 29, 1883) was an officer of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War, and as the first Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.

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History Channel

History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.

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Isaac Huger

Isaac Huger (March 19, 1743 – October 17, 1797) was an American planter and Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War.

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.

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James Chesnut Jr.

James Chesnut Jr. (January 18, 1815 – February 1, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician, and a Confederate functionary.

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James Island, South Carolina

James Island is a town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States.

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John A. Dahlgren

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870) was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery.

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LeRoy Pope Walker

LeRoy Pope Walker (February 7, 1817 – August 23, 1884) was the first Confederate States Secretary of War.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Armed Forces, a major general is a two-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.

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Mary Boykin Chesnut

Mary Boykin Chesnut (Miller; March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle."Woodward, C. Vann.

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Monitor (warship)

A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns.

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Morris Island

Morris Island is an 840-acre (3.4 km2) uninhabited island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, accessible only by boat.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Norman J. Hall

Norman Jonathan Hall (March 4, 1837 – May 26, 1867) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War.

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P. G. T. Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.

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Parrott rifle

The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War.

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Patriots Point

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is a naval museum located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.

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Quincy Adams Gillmore

Quincy Adams Gillmore (February 28, 1825 – April 7, 1888) was an American civil engineer, author, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Rear admiral

Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.

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Robert Anderson (Civil War)

Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War.

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Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Samuel Francis Du Pont

Samuel Francis Du Pont (September 27, 1803 – June 23, 1865) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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Seacoast defense in the United States

Seacoast defense was a major concern for the United States from its independence until World War II. Fort Sumter and Seacoast defense in the United States are coastal fortifications.

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Second Battle of Fort Sumter

The Second Battle of Fort Sumter was fought on September 8, 1863, in Charleston Harbor.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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Star of the West

Star of the West was an American merchant steamship that was launched in 1852 and scuttled by Confederate forces in 1863. Fort Sumter and Star of the West are south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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Stephen D. Lee

Stephen Dill Lee (September 22, 1833 – May 28, 1908) was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899.

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The Battery (Charleston)

The Battery is a landmark defensive seawall and promenade in Charleston, South Carolina. Fort Sumter and The Battery (Charleston) are south Carolina in the American Civil War.

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The Citadel

The Citadel Military College of South Carolina (simply known as The Citadel) is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

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The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.

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Thomas H. Stevens Jr.

Thomas Holdup Stevens Jr. (27 May 1819 – 15 May 1896) was an admiral of the United States Navy who fought in the American Civil War.

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Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734June 1, 1832) was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general during the Revolutionary War.

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Title (property)

In property law, title is an intangible construct representing a bundle of rights in (to) a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest.

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Touch hole

A touch hole, also known as a cannon vent, is a small hole at the rear (breech) portion of the barrel of a muzzleloading gun or cannon.

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Union blockade

The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Revenue Cutter Service

The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to serve as an armed customs enforcement service.

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USRC Harriet Lane

Harriet Lane was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil War, a ship of the United States Navy and later Confederate States Navy.

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USS Catskill (1862)

USS Catskill was a monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Keokuk (1862)

USS Keokuk was an experimental ironclad screw steamer of the United States Navy named for the city of Keokuk, Iowa.

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USS Montauk (1862)

The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted ''Passaic''-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Nahant (1862)

The first USS Nahant was a ironclad monitor of the United States Navy that saw service in the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.

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USS Nantucket (1862)

The first USS Nantucket was a coastal monitor in the United States Navy.

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USS New Ironsides

USS New Ironsides was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Passaic (1862)

The first Passaic was a single turreted, coastal monitor purchased by the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War.

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USS Patapsco (1862)

USS Patapsco was a ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Pawnee (1859)

The first USS Pawnee was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Pocahontas (1852)

The first USS Pocahontas, a screw steamer built at Medford, Massachusetts in 1852 as City of Boston, and purchased by the Navy at Boston, Massachusetts on 20 March 1855, was the first United States Navy ship to be named for Pocahontas, the Algonquian wife of Virginia colonist John Rolfe.

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USS Powhatan (1850)

The first USS Powhatan was a sidewheel steam frigate in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Weehawken (1862)

The first USS Weehawken was a ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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William J. Cooper Jr.

William J. Cooper Jr. (born October 22, 1940) is an American historian who specializes in the history of the American South, and is regarded as a leading expert on the life of Jefferson Davis.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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12-inch gun M1895

The 12-inch coastal defense gun M1895 (305 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The 1st Air Defense Artillery is an air defense artillery regiment in the United States Army first formed as a field artillery unit in 1821.

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See also

1829 establishments in South Carolina

• Fort Sumter
• Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy

1947 disestablishments in South Carolina

• Fort Sumter

American Civil War museums in South Carolina

• Burt-Stark Mansion
• City Market (Charleston, South Carolina)
• Fort Sumter
• H. L. Hunley (submarine)
• South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
• War Between the States Museum

Archaeological sites in South Carolina

• Charles Towne Landing
• Chauga Mound
• Conservation-restoration of the H.L. Hunley
• Fort Sumter
• H. L. Hunley (submarine)
• List of shell ring sites
• Mary Bowers (ship)
• Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area
• SS Georgiana
• Santa Elena (Spanish Florida)
• Topper site
• USS Housatonic (1861)

Forts in South Carolina

• Battery White
• Camp Saxton Site
• Castle Pinckney
• Fort Charlotte (South Carolina)
• Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve
• Fort Fremont
• Fort Howell
• Fort Jackson (South Carolina)
• Fort Mitchell (South Carolina)
• Fort Motte
• Fort Moultrie
• Fort Prince
• Fort Prince George (South Carolina)
• Fort Sumter
• Fort Wagner
• Fort Walker (Hilton Head)

Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina

• Castle Pinckney
• Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve
• Fort Fremont
• Fort Howell
• Fort Johnson (South Carolina)
• Fort Mitchell (South Carolina)
• Fort Motte
• Fort Moultrie
• Fort Pemberton (South Carolina)
• Fort Sumter
• Ninety Six National Historic Site

Military installations closed in 1947

• Apalachicola Regional Airport
• Camp Holcomb
• Dutch Harbor
• Fort Barrancas
• Fort H. G. Wright
• Fort Morgan (Alabama)
• Fort Pickens
• Fort Sumter
• HMS Ferret (1940 shore establishment)
• Lovelock Aerial Gunnery Range
• Madison Barracks
• Majuro Airfield
• Naval Air Station Hitchcock
• Naval Auxiliary Air Station Hollister
• RAF Ibsley
• RAF Killadeas
• RNAS Hinstock (HMS Godwit)
• Selman Army Airfield
• Yonabaru Airfield

Military installations established in 1829

• Fort Sumter

Military installations of the Confederate States of America

• Camp Bragg (Arkansas)
• Camp Ford
• Camp Parapet
• Chimborazo Hospital
• Fort Donelson
• Fort Gaines (Alabama)
• Fort Johnston (North Carolina)
• Fort McAllister
• Fort Morgan (Alabama)
• Fort Moultrie
• Fort Smith National Historic Site
• Fort Stonewall
• Fort Sumter
• Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal

Sea forts

• Îles Saint-Marcouf
• Alhucemas Islands
• Bréhon Tower
• Flakfortet
• Folly fort
• Fort Alexander (Saint Petersburg)
• Fort Boyard (fortification)
• Fort Carroll
• Fort Constantin (Russia)
• Fort Denison
• Fort Drum (Philippines)
• Fort Jefferson (Florida)
• Fort Louvois
• Fort Lytton
• Fort Mahon
• Fort National
• Fort Sumter
• Fort de Bertheaume
• Fort de la Conchée
• Fort of São Lourenço do Bugio
• Fortín San Juan de la Cruz
• Garcia d'Ávila Tower House
• HM Fort Roughs
• Horse Sand Fort
• Humber Forts
• Khanderi
• Kolaba Fort
• Maunsell Forts
• Middelgrundsfortet
• Murud-Janjira
• Nab Tower
• New Älvsborg
• No Man's Land Fort
• Padmadurg
• Pampus
• Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
• Plymouth Breakwater
• Pope's Eye
• São Marcelo Fort
• Sarjekot fort
• Shivering Sands Army Fort
• Sindhudurg Fort
• South Channel Fort
• Spitbank Fort
• St Helens Fort
• Stack Rock Fort
• Suomenlinna
• Trekroner Fort
• Vijaydurg Fort

South Carolina in the American Civil War

• 1862 South Carolina gubernatorial election
• 1864 South Carolina gubernatorial election
• Army of Georgia
• Army of the Ohio
• Army of the Tennessee
• Battery White
• Beaufort National Cemetery
• Bummers
• CSS Peedee
• Camp Saxton Site
• Camp Sorghum
• Capture of Columbia
• Castle Pinckney
• Catawba in the American Civil War
• Charleston Arsenal
• Charleston and Savannah Railway
• Charleston in the American Civil War
• Columbia, South Carolina, in the American Civil War
• Drayton Hall
• Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor
• Florence National Cemetery
• Florence Stockade
• Fort Howell
• Fort Johnson (South Carolina)
• Fort Mitchell (South Carolina)
• Fort Moultrie
• Fort Pemberton (South Carolina)
• Fort Sumter
• Fort Sumter Flag
• Lower seaboard theater of the American Civil War
• Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (Charleston, South Carolina)
• Mitchelville
• Paul Gelegotis Bridge
• Port Royal Experiment
• Sea Islands
• Secession Hill
• Sister's Ferry
• South Carolina College Cadets
• South Carolina Declaration of Secession
• South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
• South Carolina Navy
• South Carolina in the American Civil War
• Special Field Orders No. 15
• St. Andrew's Hall, Charleston
• Star of the West
• Stone Fleet
• The Battery (Charleston)
• Washington Light Infantry
• Western theater of the American Civil War

Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials

• Civil War Monument (Denver)
• Daughters of Union Veterans Civil War Memorial
• Fort Sumter
• Gentry Grand Army of the Republic Monument
• Grand Army of the Republic
• List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials
• Middlebury to Her Soldiers
• Minnesota Monument
• Sedgwick County Memorial Hall and Soldiers and Sailors Monument
• Soldier's Monument (Davenport, Iowa)
• Soldiers' Monument (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
• Tanner Amphitheater
• Treue der Union Monument

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter

Also known as Fort Sumpter, Fort Sumpter Charleston Sc, Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Ft sumter, Ft. Sumpter, Ft. Sumter, Lincoln's last speech, Raising the Flag at Fort Sumter.

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