LOCATION FILE
Fort Sumter
FOLLOWCharleston, SC
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The brick sea fort in Charleston Harbor where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861. During the surrender salute two days later, a gun misfired and killed Private Daniel Hough, the war's first fatality. The fort is now a unit of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Visitors and staff have reported the apparition of a Union soldier, often tied to Daniel Hough, along with phantom smoke and the smell of gunpowder within the fort.
VISITING
Reached by ferry; open to the public as a national park site.
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