This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore superseded Major General David Hunter in command of the Department of the South. Gillmore had breached Fort Pulaski with rifled guns the year before, and he came to Charleston convinced he could do the same to Fort Sumter. He was right about the fort and wrong about what it would get him.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1
“Everything quiet here this morning. Lieutenants Videtto and Dawson, Thirty-second Georgia, were relieved last night by Lieutenants Cardin and Persons, same regiment. Sixteen rifle shells fired at fort yesterday; 10 struck.”
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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