William Maser said he was firing a cannon Wednesday evening when the ball ricocheted and hit the house about 400 yards away.

Workers repairing an underground steam pipe at the University of South Carolina in Columbia found human bone fragments where a Civil War hospital once treated injured soldiers.

Archaeologists from the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University have located two large cannon from a sunken Confederate gunboat in the Pee Dee River.

Thanks to a Good Samaritan, the Bible is now back with soldier’s family in New Jersey.

Planners envision a re-enactment of the bombardment of Fort Sumter as part of South Carolina’s observance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

The crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was not pumping water out of the crew compartment when the hand-cranked sub sank off Charleston in 1864.