Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled with Union troops, many of them from the 2nd South Carolina Colored ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields ...

Relics from the Civil War have been discovered in South Carolina before. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew unearthed Civil War cannonballs from the sand on Folly Beach.

President Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina, hit the market last week for $4.9 million. The Pritchard House, as it’s known, is named for the property’s original owner, Dr. Paul ...