This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Commodore Turner issued a divisional order from the New Ironsides: from this date, blockading vessels would burn a red Coston signal for a vessel running in and a white one for a vessel running out. The whole business had become routine enough to need a color code.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 14
Thirty-two 30-pounder Parrott shots since the previous evening, twenty-six striking. Captain Keeley of the 19th Georgia with two officers and fifty men was relieved by Lieutenant Siddall with forty-eight of the 20th. The fort's day is told in two numbers and two names.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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