This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1864
“Nothing unusual this morning.” Captain Mitchel’s noon report from Fort Sumter: a small working party hauling sods to the middle battery, fifteen mortar shells fired at the fort during the night, of which twelve struck. That was an ordinary night in the fort in 1864, and the reports read the same for months at a time.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 35, Pt. 1
Commodore Rowan of the New Ironsides reported deserters’ word from Charleston that two blockade runners had got in through Breach Inlet — the shallow channel between Sullivan’s Island and Long Island that the deep-draught blockaders could not enter. Three months earlier the Hunley had gone out the same way.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 15
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