This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863
The garrison of Fort Sumter spent Christmas week 1863 as it spent every week: relieved by rowboat after dark, sheltering in casemates shored with sandbags, and repairing by night what the mortars knocked down by day. The second great bombardment had been running for two months.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
Beauregard wrote to his chief engineer about the advantages a Charleston establishment offered for construction work the department needed. The city’s foundries, machine shops and rolling mills were as much a part of its defense as its batteries.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
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