This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862
Two officers of the Fort Sumter garrison wrote asking for transfer, one to Virginia or the West. The people of Charleston, they said, had lost confidence in the regiment after the Planter escaped, and “my feelings have been greatly hurt at the imputations cast upon us.” Pemberton investigated and reported there was no real cause for apprehension.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
Pemberton begged the president of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad for every facility to move timber for the work of obstructing the channel between Forts Sumter and Moultrie. The rope-and-piling obstruction, the boom, the torpedoes and the ranges laid out that summer were what actually stopped the ironclads the following April.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
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