This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
Elliott asked headquarters whether Colquitt's men on duty at the post should rejoin their command, offering to relieve them that night by detaining a detachment of the 27th South Carolina. Manning Fort Sumter was a nightly negotiation between brigades that all wanted their companies back.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Skirmishes at Wolf’s Plantation and at Gunter’s Bridge on the North Edisto. Sherman’s two wings were closing on Columbia. Charleston, untaken in four years of siege, was about to be given up without a shot fired in its streets.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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