This day in Charleston

July 25

2 entries · 1863–1864

1863Battery Wagner

The first breaching gun goes in

The first emplacement for a heavy breaching gun — an 8-inch Parrott rifle — was finished on the left and the gun mounted, served from a bomb-proof magazine built expressly for it. It first fired at Fort Sumter on 12 August. That day Captain Chichester, whose company had been ordered out of Battery Wagner, asked permission to stay on at the battery anyway.

Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1

1864Fort Sumter

Firing at the south angle again

Forty-nine shots, seventeen missing; one private of the 32nd Georgia slightly wounded. The Federals worked with a 10-inch columbiad and a 100-pounder from the middle battery at the south angle, and the mortar shelling recommenced in the morning.

Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1

Entries are dated from the War of the Rebellion official records, the naval official records and contemporary Charleston sources. Browse the whole year.