This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
“Our picket-boat, commanded by Boatswain Smith, captured Yankee picket-boat containing 1 officer and 5 men.” Between the ruin of Fort Sumter and the Federal batteries on Morris Island, the war was fought at night by rowboats carrying half a dozen men.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Skirmishing at Lynch’s Creek and near Stroud’s Mill. The troops who had held Charleston through eighteen months of bombardment were now marching through their own state’s midlands toward a surrender they could not yet see coming.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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