No southern governor, except William Gist of South Carolina, seemed willing to lead the South out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Senator John C.Calhoun of South Carolina said the committee should write a declaration explaining the position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Larry West tell what happened after South Carolina left the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Early in October, the governor of South Carolina, William Gist, wrote letters to the governors of other southern states.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Delegates to the convention would make the final decision if South Carolina would remain in the Union or secede.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The attorney general and the secretary of state threatened to resign if President Buchanan gave in to South Carolina's demands.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

One newspaper in Calhoun's state of South Carolina said: "The senator's death is best for the country and his own honor.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

But what must it do now. There was the problem of property in South Carolina owned by the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Six days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the commander of Charleston's forts decided to move his men to Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The Charleston Museum displays objects that came from the "low country" -- the land along South Carolina's coast.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

At the party's other extreme were the Democrats of the South, led by John C.Calhoun of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

James Frederick is an IPM expert with Clemson University's Pee Dee Research and Educational Center in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

Gist said South Carolina would call a state convention as soon as the election results were made official.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

On his second day as president, Lincoln received some bad news from Fort Sumter at Charleston,South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The southerners wanted him to recognize South Carolina and order all federal troops out of Charleston Harbor.

VOA: special.2009.07.23