This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1861–1865
Six weeks after secession South Carolina was still, formally, a nation by itself; the convention that would join her to the others was meeting at Montgomery. In Charleston the practical question was narrower and closer: what to do about the sixty-eight United States soldiers holding a fort in the middle of the harbor.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 1
Sherman’s columns skirmished at Hickory Hill and Whippy Swamp Creek as the march north began in earnest. The Confederate command still could not say whether Charleston or Columbia was the object. Hardee kept his troops in the lowcountry a fortnight longer than he should have.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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