This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864–1865
Gunboats, transports and small steamers worked in and out of the Stono all day, and about forty men were seen carrying plank from Horse Island to the batteries at Green Creek. Off Charleston bar the frigate Wabash had been replaced by a small sloop of war without steam — a quiet sign that the navy’s weight was shifting elsewhere.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
“I regret to inform the Department of the destruction of the U. S. monitor Patapsco by a torpedo last night about 8 o’clock near the entrance to the lower harbor of Charleston.” The admiral wrote from the flagship Harvest Moon in Charleston Roads. Sixty-two of her people had gone down with her.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 16
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