This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
“The condition of affairs as unchanged this morning. The number of shots fired since last report is 8, 2 of which passed over, all of them last night.” Night firing was aimed at the working parties, not the walls.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Skirmishing at Bradford Springs and Boykin’s Mill during the Federal expedition from Georgetown toward Camden — among the last shots fired in South Carolina, nine days after Appomattox. The lowcountry did not learn the war was over all at once.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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