This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Charleston kept Christmas Eve 1863 with the lower wards emptied, business moved above Calhoun Street, and the Federal guns on Morris Island firing at intervals into a city four and a half miles away. The churches south of Broad stood dark; St. Michael’s steeple had been painted black to spoil the range.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
A narration written at Charleston on Christmas Eve 1864 described the disposition of the vessels of the Savannah Squadron within the enemy’s lines of investment. Savannah had fallen three days earlier; its ironclads had been burned or scuttled, as Charleston’s would be eight weeks later.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 16
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