Charleston: The City Where the War Began.

The article focuses on a number of places in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, which has Civil War significance. Many are on Meeting Street like the St. Michael's Episcopal Church (a Confederate observation post) and the Charleston Museum. At the foot of Meeting Street is Battery Park, home to the downtown batteries that fired upon Fort Sumter on April 12-13, 1861. Other downtown buildings with links to the war include the U.S. Customs building and the Exchange Building.