The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston,South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States Army,beginning the American Civil War.
Richard Hutson was a Founding Father of the United States and an American lawyer,judge,politician,plantation owner,and slave owner from Charleston,South Carolina. He was born in June 1747 to Rev. William Hutson and Mary Hutson. His family moved to Charleston in 1756 when his father was the pastor at the Circular Congregational Church. After having been educated in Charleston as a child,he attended Princeton.
Robert Barnwell Rhett was an American politician who served as a deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Confederate States Congress from 1861 to 1862,a member of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina from 1837 to 1849,and US Senator from South Carolina from 1850 to 1852. As a staunch supporter of slavery and an early advocate of secession,he was a "Fire-Eater". He was given the nickname,the "father of succession".
William Porcher Miles was an American politician who was among the ardent states' rights advocates,supporters of slavery,and Southern secessionists who came to be known as the "Fire-Eaters." He is notable for having designed the most popular variant of the Confederate flag,originally rejected as the national flag in 1861 but adopted as a battle flag by the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee before it was reincorporated.
George Alfred Trenholm was a South Carolina businessman,financier,politician,and slaveholding planter who owned several plantations and strongly supported the Confederate States of America. He was appointed as its Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
Courtenay,an unincorporated community on Merritt Island in Brevard County,Florida,United States. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Courtenay was settled in the 1870s and 1880s by people from Charleston,South Carolina,and was named for William Ashmead Courtenay,a native of Charleston,Confederate veteran and Charleston businessman who later served two terms as Mayor of Charleston.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860,and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12,1861 is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war. The retaking of Charleston in February 1865,and raising the flag again at Fort Sumter,was used for the Union symbol of victory.
Charleston,South Carolina,was a hotbed of secession at the start of the American Civil War and an important Atlantic Ocean port city for the fledgling Confederate States of America. The first shots against the Federal government were those fired there by cadets of the Citadel to stop a ship from resupplying the Federally held Fort Sumter. Three months later,the bombardment of Fort Sumter triggered a massive call for Federal troops to put down the rebellion. Although the city and its surrounding fortifications were repeatedly targeted by the Union Army and Navy,Charleston did not fall to Federal forces until the last months of the war. Charleston was devastated.
States Rights Gist was a lawyer,a militia general in South Carolina,and a Confederate Army brigadier general who served during the American Civil War. A relative of several prominent South Carolinians,Gist rose to fame during the war but was killed at the Battle of Franklin on November 30,1864. His name was based on the Southern states’rights doctrine of nullification politics of his father,Nathaniel Gist. Nathaniel Gist was a disciple of John C. Calhoun and chose his son's name to reflect his own political sentiments.
Newry is a census-designated place in Oconee County,South Carolina,United States. According to the 2010 United States Census,the population of the CDP was 172.
William Courtenay (1342–1396) was an Archbishop of Canterbury
Andrew Gordon Magrath was the last Governor of South Carolina under the Confederate States of America,a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and a Confederate District Judge for the District of South Carolina.
The history of Charleston,South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States,spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s. The city grew wealthy through the export of rice and,later,sea island cotton and it was the base for many wealthy merchants and landowners. "Charleston was the capital of American slavery."
The Charleston Mercury was a secessionist newspaper in Charleston,South Carolina,founded by Henry L. Pinckney in 1819. He was its sole editor for fifteen years. It ceased publication with the Union Army occupation of Charleston. After the American Civil War,publication resumed in November 1866 before the paper closed permanently two years later in 1868.
Robert Goodwyn Rhett (1862–1939) was the fiftieth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing two terms from 1903 to 1911. From 1916–1918,he served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Black South Carolinians are residents of the state of South Carolina who are of African ancestry. This article examines South Carolina's history with an emphasis on the lives,status,and contributions of African Americans. Enslaved Africans first arrived in the region in 1526,and the institution of slavery remained until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Until slavery's abolition,the free black population of South Carolina never exceeded 2%. Beginning during the Reconstruction Era,African Americans were elected to political offices in large numbers,leading to South Carolina's first majority-black government. Toward the end of the 1870s however,the Democratic Party regained power and passed laws aimed at disenfranchising African Americans,including the denial of the right to vote. Between the 1870s and 1960s,African Americans and whites lived segregated lives;people of color and whites were not allowed to attend the same schools or share public facilities. African Americans were treated as second-class citizens leading to the civil rights movement in the 1960s. In modern America,African Americans constitute 22% of the state's legislature,and in 2014,the state's first African American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction,Tim Scott,was elected. In 2015,the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse after the Charleston church shooting.
James Henry Ladson (1795–1868) was an American planter and businessman from Charleston,South Carolina. He was the owner of James H. Ladson &Co.,a major Charleston firm that was active in the rice and cotton business,and owned over 200 slaves. He was also the Danish Consul in South Carolina,a director of the State Bank and held numerous other business,church and civic offices. James H. Ladson was a strong proponent of slavery and especially the use of religion to maintain discipline among the slaves. He and other members of the Charleston planter and merchant elite played a key role in launching the American Civil War. Among Ladson's descendants is Ursula von der Leyen,who briefly lived under the alias Rose Ladson.
Carlyle "Carl" McKinley was a soldier,theological student,cotton broker,newspaper editor,poet,and essayist in the United States. He lived in South Carolina and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
