This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1863
“Orders given and movement will begin at 6 o’clock this evening.” Beauregard telegraphing about troops going north out of his department while the Federal fleet lay off his bar.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
Special Orders No. 271, from Charleston: “First Lieut. George E. Dixon, Twenty-first Regiment Alabama Volunteers, will take command and direction of the submarine torpedo-boat H. L. Hunley, and proceed to-night to the mouth of the harbor.” Two crews had already died in her. Dixon took her out for two months of training, and on 17 February 1864 he took her out for the last time.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
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