This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Du Pont’s report of the 7 April repulse — nine ironclads, five disabled, one sunk, one fort barely dented — was read in Washington as an excuse rather than an assessment. He was relieved that summer. His central judgment, that ships alone could not take Charleston, was correct, and the army spent the next two years proving it.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 14
The rest of the 22nd South Carolina was relieved overnight by a detachment of the 20th, and the fort noted the composition of the Federal sentinels at Cumming's Point. Each side studied the other's guard details for what they revealed about the other's strength.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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