While on vacation in South Carolina my wife & I spent some time visiting Charleston, the beautiful coastal city established in 1670 that has figured substantially in several important moments in the life of America, not the least of which was the beginning of the Civil War on April 12, 1861, when Confederate troops opened fire on Federal forces holding Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The pictures here are from The Battery, a collection of homes that line the waterfront at the point of the city where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers ... (more)