This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Instructions to reinforce Fort Sumter by rowboat in the event of an assault were recalled and rewritten. The same day an officer reported on his call at Thomas Eason’s shop about the iron shield contracted for the fort — Charleston was still trying to armor a ruin that had no guns left to protect.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
The day’s freight into Charleston, printed with the consignees’ names: sixteen barrels and 469 sacks of flour, 260 bushels of grain, 100 of meal, ten barrels of molasses, twelve kegs of nails, twenty bundles of paper, forty barrels and drums of oil, merchandise and cattle. One railroad was still running, and everything the city ate came down it.
Charleston Mercury, 15 November 1864, p. 2, “Consignees per South Carolina Railroad, November 14”
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