This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
The flagstaff at the Federal middle battery was shot away by Confederate guns during the night and replaced in the morning. Only one steamer lay in Light-House Inlet; ten schooners remained. Both sides spent a good deal of ammunition on each other's flags.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Skirmishing at the North Edisto crossings on the twelfth and thirteenth. Columbia was three days away. In Charleston, Hardee had begun quietly shipping out what stores and guns the railroads could still carry.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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