This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1865
Charleston telegraphed Richmond: the Federal fleet at Hilton Head was reported as four frigates, four gunboats and forty transports — about double the usual number of transports, “which may indicate future” operations. Ten weeks later the ironclads attacked.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
A second reconnaissance from Pocotaligo to the Salkehatchie. By now the Confederate command in Charleston had to weigh two possibilities at once: that Sherman meant to come at the city from the west, or that he meant to cut its railroads and leave it to fall on its own. He meant the second.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 47
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