This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1861–1862
The USS Niagara took station off Charleston bar and the blockade of the port began — thirteen hundred and sixty-six days before the city was given up. Nothing shaped Charleston’s war more: what it ate, what it wore, what its defenses were made of, and who got rich.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 12
Federal operations in the Stono River continued as the ground was prepared for a move on James Island. Within a week Union troops were ashore in force, and within three they had been thrown back at Secessionville.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
Entries are dated from the War of the Rebellion official records, the naval official records and contemporary Charleston sources. Browse the whole year.