In the predawn darkness of September 29, 1864, black Union soldiers attacked a heavily fortified ...

June 1910, Charleston, South Carolina. A Jewish merchant, Max Lubelsky, lay murdered in his cloth...

Charleston was the prize that the Union army and navy desperately sought to capture. Union Genera...

In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was...

South Carolinians have long desired a route for water navigation from Columbia to Charleston. An ...

In this engaging volume, local historian Douglas Bostick reveals the unacknowledged history of th...

After the Battle of Perryville in October 1862, the focus of the Civil War in the West shifted ba...

Douglas Bostick, historian and former director of Save the Light, Inc., recounts the stories of t...

In 1864, General Grant tasked General David Hunter with raiding the breadbasket of the Shenandoah...