This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1861–1864
Coming over the bar at first light, the Star of the West was fired on by a masked battery on Morris Island manned by cadets of The Citadel, and then by Fort Moultrie. Anderson kept Sumter’s guns silent. The steamer turned about and stood out to sea. Three months before the bombardment, South Carolina had fired on the flag and been answered with nothing.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 1
Only a few shots from Battery Gregg at Fort Johnson, which did not reply. The officer commanding Battery Marion reported he had not fired because he had no 10-inch mortar shells. About eleven a battery on Cumming’s Point opened on the city and was still firing slowly at midnight, half an hour between rounds.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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