This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
“It is difficult to say whether there are four or five monitors.” One shot was fired at the fort. Lieutenant Kemper with three officers and sixty men relieved Captain Colhoun. Counting the enemy's ironclads accurately was a daily duty and a daily uncertainty.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, who had taken Morris Island and shelled Charleston in 1863, resumed command of the Department of the South in place of John G. Foster. Nine days later his troops walked into the city he had spent eighteen months bombarding.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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