He installed a brick from Fort Sumter, the site of the start of the Civil War, and Appomattix, the site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee, on each side of the doorway to his home from the outdoor terrace.

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231128/look-the-week-in-pictures-photo-gallery-for-november-20-26-2023

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered plans for a relief expedition to sail to South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, which was still in the hands of Union forces despite repeated demands by the Confederacy that it be turned over.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/archives/today-in-history-mar-29/collection_3b85e4f0-7bc9-5544-bbc9-fd644ef0201d.html

In 2018, the park service completed the very first sea level rise assessment for Fort Sumter and 117 other park-managed sites.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/environment/a-confederate-monument-a-union-fort-and-a-sea-rising/article_425d2a8e-ac2f-11ed-8972-4f6dca9569bd.html

They don’t believe in equal rights or blind justice, any more than they did when their predecessors in the party were firing on Fort Sumter or starting the Ku Klux Klan.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/30/carr-supreme-court-decision-ends-racism-of-affirmative-action/