Primary sources

Confederate Veteran Magazines

Every Charleston article in the forty volumes, 1893–1932, in the order it was printed.

The Confederate Veteran was published monthly at Nashville from 1893 until it stopped in December 1932. Its forty volumes were searched in full for matter on Charleston, its harbor, its defences, its garrisons and its prisoners between 1860 and 1865. 75 articles are printed here, in the order the magazine printed them.

Each has been located in the scanned volume, its printed page settled against the page itself, its text read again from the scan at higher resolution than the Archive’s own, and its statements checked against the record. The transcriptions are machine-read and lightly cleaned; every place the scan is doubtful is marked on the article’s own page, and a link to the page image is given so that anything can be checked.

How this collection was made sets out what was searched, what was found, and what is likely to have been missed.

1890s

Issue	Article	Author	Pages
February 1893 Vol. 1	Six Hundred Confederate Officersreminiscence	Joseph L. Lemon	49–50
November 1893 Vol. 1	Fort Sumter — Career of Colonel Rhettbiographical sketch	unsigned	338
December 1893 Vol. 1	Fort Sumter and the Seige of Charlestoncorrection	R. Barnwell Rhett	372–373
April 1894 Vol. 2	History of the “Star of the West”note	unsigned	120
April 1894 Vol. 2	Flag of the First Regiment South Carolina Regular Artilleryregimental history	Claudine Rhett	126
July 1894 Vol. 2	First Soldier Killed in Dixieclaim and family record	James G. Holmes	197
1896* Vol. 4	Capt. John Mitchel at Fort Sumtermemorial sketch	Claudine Rhett	6–7
July 1896* Vol. 4	Charleston Harborreminiscence	C. A. Doolittle	229
February 1897 Vol. 5	The Story of the Six Hundred Part Ireminiscence	Henry Howe Cook	116–118
March 1897* Vol. 5	The Story of the Six Hundred Part IIreminiscence	Henry Howe Cook	148
April 1897 Vol. 5	The Story of the Six Hundred Part IIIreminiscence	Henry Howe Cook	219–220
May 1897* Vol. 5	The First Cannon-Shot of the Warreminiscence and documents	Louis Sherfesee	273
August 1897 Vol. 5	How the “Patapsco” Went Down in Charleston Harborreminiscence	Thomas A. Huguenin	422–423
March 1898* Vol. 6	Story of the Six Hundred Part IVreminiscence and documents	Henry Howe Cook	118–120
May 1898 Vol. 6	Firing the First Shot for C. S. A.reminiscence	J. H. Ramsay	260
March 1899 Vol. 7	Notes about the Reunion Cityhistorical sketch	C. Irvine Walker	102
April 1899 Vol. 7	Survivors of the Six Hundred Officersletter	Lamar Fontaine	149
July 1899 Vol. 7	The Six Hundred Confederate Officersroster	unsigned	313
August 1899 Vol. 7	Fifty Exposed as the “Six Hundred”correction and roster	J. T. Tucker	364
September 1899 Vol. 7	Two of the Six Hundredanecdote	unsigned	415–417
October 1899 Vol. 7	The “Bones” of the Star of the Westreminiscence	F. W. Merrius	457–458

1900s

Issue	Article	Author	Pages
March 1900 Vol. 8	The Six Hundred to Meet in Louisvilleletter	Lamar Fontaine	116
April 1901 Vol. 9	[Who Fired the First Gun at Fort Sumter]letter	James G. Holmes	156
January 1902 Vol. 10	Maj. H. D. D. Twiggs at Battery Wagnerreminiscence	Henry D. Capers	23–24
March 1903 Vol. 11	Name of Fish Torpedo Inventor Desiredquery	J. M. Lay	123–125
October 1903 Vol. 11	Evacuating Morris Islandreminiscence	H. S. Fuller	519
February 1904 Vol. 12	Evacuation of Morris Islandcorrection	C. A. Williamson	71
March 1904 Vol. 12	Perilous Adventure at Battery Wagnerreminiscence	H. D. D. Twiggs	104
February 1908* Vol. 16	First Submarine Boat in Actual Warfareaccount	Charles Doran	71–72
February 1908* Vol. 16	Daring Deed in Saving the David — C. S. Navycorrection and history	James Lachlison	78
February 1908* Vol. 16	How the Six Hundred Officers Faredcorrection	Junius L. Hempstead	81
July 1908 Vol. 16	Destruction of Federal Gunboattradition	Clara Bacot	347
October 1908 Vol. 16	English Man-of-War at Fort Sumterreminiscence	W. B. Fort	496
November 1908* Vol. 16	The First Submarine Boatcorrection	Arthur P. Ford	563
September 1909 Vol. 17	Torpedo Boat at Louisiana Soldiers' Homehistory	Gordon S. Levy	459

1910s

Issue	Article	Author	Pages
April 1910 Vol. 18	Spirit South at Time of First Battleletter	Jane Bowie	173
May 1910 Vol. 18	The First South Carolina Regimentregimental history	Elihu Muldrow	233
September 1910* Vol. 18	The Battle of Fort Sumterpaper	Susie Penna Beaty	419–420
August 1911* Vol. 19	Two Views of Fort Sumterpoem	unsigned	400–401
July 1913 Vol. 21	Story of the Star of the Westhistorical narrative	H. M. Clarkson	234
April 1914* Vol. 22	Submarines and Torpedo Boats, C. S. N.paper	James H. Tomb	168–169
September 1914 Vol. 22	Submarines and Torpedo Boatsreminiscence	C. L. Stanton	398–399
September 1914 Vol. 22	Confederate Submarines — Information Wantedquery	unsigned	427
July 1915* Vol. 24	The Sinking of the Housatonicextract	unsigned	281
July 1915 Vol. 23	Telegraphic Correspondence between Beauregard and Walkerdocuments	unsigned	320
September 1915* Vol. 23	The Attack on Fort Johnsonreminiscence	J. J. Brown	413
December 1916 Vol. 24	Incidents of Service with the Charleston Light Dragoonsreminiscence	Albert Rhett Elmore	538–543
March 1917 Vol. 25	Torpedo Service in Charleston Harborreminiscence	William T. Glassell	113–116
October 1918 Vol. 26	First Submarine in the Confederate Navyaccount	W. B. Fort	459–460
February 1919 Vol. 27	The Immortal Six Hundredhistorical sketch	Anne Bachman Hyde	68

1920s

Issue	Article	Author	Pages
July 1920* Vol. 28	Signal Corps in Defense of Charlestonreminiscence	R. de T. Lawrence	259
March 1921 Vol. 29	On the Retreat from Charlestonreminiscence	R. de T. Lawrence	90
May 1921 Vol. 29	Confederate Prisoners at Morris Islandreminiscence	Walter G. McRae	178–179
June 1922 Vol. 30	The Immortal Six Hundredhistorical sketch	A. A. Campbell	216–217
October 1922 Vol. 30	The Battle of Secessionvillecompiled account	unsigned	368–370
November 1922 Vol. 30	In the Battle of Secessionvillereminiscence	R. de T. Lawrence	410
January 1923 Vol. 31	The Fourth Louisiana Battalion at the Battle of Secessionville, S. C.correction	H. J. Lea	14–16
March 1923 Vol. 31	Confederate Torpedo Boatscorrection	James H. Tomb	93–94
April 1923 Vol. 31	Survivors of the Immortal Six Hundredlist	unsigned	127
March 1924 Vol. 32	The Last Obstructions in Charleston Harbor, 1863technical account	James H. Tomb	98–99
November 1924 Vol. 32	The Edisto Riflescompany history	Marion Salley	420–423
April 1925 Vol. 33	Efforts to Capture Charleston, S. C., and Evacuation of the Cityreminiscence and summary	Robert W. Sanders	142–143
June 1925 Vol. 33	With the Blockade Runnersreminiscence	Joseph F. Torrent	208
December 1925 Vol. 33	“Old Charleston by the Sea”sketch	John Grimball Wilkins	452–453
May 1926 Vol. 34	Old Churches in Charlestonnote	Robert W. Sanders	175–176
July 1926 Vol. 34	Naval Operations at Charlestonreminiscence	James H. Tomb	259–260
September 1926 Vol. 34	Fort Sumter in 1861legal argument	Robert L. Preston	325
July 1927 Vol. 35	Life at Fort Wagnertechnical account	S. A. Ashe	254–256
September 1927 Vol. 35	Spoiled the Soupanecdote	W. D. Craig	358
November 1927 Vol. 35	Fort Sumter, 1860-61historiographical essay	Robert W. Barnwell, Sr.	414
March 1929 Vol. 37	Recovery of the Guns of the Keokukhistorical narrative	Julia Porcher Wickham	96–98

1930s

Issue	Article	Author	Pages
December 1930 Vol. 38	Three Vital Episodes in the Attacks on Charlestonanalysis	Robert W. Barnwell, Sr.	466–469
April 1931 Vol. 39	The Stone Fleet in Charleston Harborhistorical narrative	Louis H. Bolander	133–136
March 1932 Vol. 40	The First Overt Actargument and documents	W. C. Alexander	86–87
December 1932 Vol. 40	The Fort Sumter Memorialreport	unsigned	415

Examined and rejected

These came up in the search, were read, and are not Charleston war articles. They are listed so that the search can be checked.

Fort Sumter in 1861 (photograph) — Volume 3, page 44. Not an article. “Fort Sumter in 1861” on Volume 3, page 43 is the caption to a photograph of the ruined fort; the page itself carries the Burial Ritual for Veterans. Recorded in the register of illustrations instead.
“Little Jack” Trimble — Volume 18, page 473. Not a Charleston article. “Little Jack Trimble” is the story of a boy soldier in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862–64; only its author, John Bennett, is of Charleston. Removed from the list after reading.