This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1861–1864
Anderson’s command at Fort Sumter — sixty-eight soldiers, eight officers and about forty-three workmen — was buying vegetables in the Charleston market under a truce that both sides were finding harder to justify. The city’s tolerance of the arrangement was nearly spent.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 1
An item omitted from the previous day's report: three tugs came up to the Cumming's Point buoy “and were made quickly to retire by 3 shots from Sullivan's Island.” The Confederate batteries could still reach anything that came too far into the harbor mouth, and did.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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