Editor: Today, April 12th, is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Confederate forces fired on Union forces manning Fort Sumter in the middle of Charleston Harbor. For 34 hours the bombardment continued and, eventually, the Union forces left the island fortress. Much of Charleston has not changed since that fateful cannon barrage.
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Walking the streets of Charleston, South Carolina’s well-preserved historic district, it’s hard to imagine that perhaps no other U.S. city has struggled so hard to survive over the four centuries since its founding. Raided by pirates, besieged by the British, burned to the ground during the Civil War, demolished by an earthquake and flooded by hurricanes, Charleston’s history is one of continual rebuilding after natural or manmade disasters.
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