This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864
“I have the honor to report that I assumed command of this post last night. No change in the fleet. Two shots (Parrotts) fired at the fort, both of which missed.” Captain F. T. Miles' first report as commander of Fort Sumter is four sentences long, which was normal.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
Confederate observers logged a new Federal earthwork on Dixon’s Island, seven feet high, and a steamer lying in Schooner Creek opposite Campbell’s house — supposed to be the Planter. She was: the harbor steamer Robert Smalls had carried out of Charleston in May 1862 was now working the same creeks for the other side.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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