This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1864
In the first of a squall about half past ten at night the Keystone State chased and boarded the English schooner Sarah, just out of Charleston for Nassau with 156 bales of upland cotton. The same morning the French warship Renaudin arrived off the bar from New York with dispatches for the French consul in the city — the blockade had diplomatic traffic as well as commercial.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 13
Captain Mitchel sent a second report about the men who had replaced the fort's flag: “It occurs to me that I did not use sufficiently strong terms in my last report in speaking of the exceeding gallantry of the men who replaced the flag to-day; it took some time to accomplish, under a rapid fire, and at the most imminent personal” risk.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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