This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1865
Union forces formally occupied Edisto Island. Over the following months the island’s freedpeople planted their own crops on abandoned plantations under Federal protection — an experiment watched carefully in Washington and denounced fiercely in Charleston.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 6
A ten-day Federal expedition went out from Charleston to the Santee River. With the city taken, the work in the lowcountry became the destruction of what remained of the interior rail lines and the extension of Union authority into the rice districts.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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