This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Two thousand men lay in boats in Folly River through the night of the ninth, waiting on the tide, while the guns on the north end of the island stayed masked. Across the inlet, some six hundred Confederates held the south end of Morris Island with eleven guns and no idea of what was coming.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1
Action at Burden’s Causeway on John’s Island — the sharpest fight of the July 1864 operations, and the end of them. The Federals withdrew to the sea islands, and the Charleston lines stayed where they were until February.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 35, Pt. 1
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