This day in Charleston
3 entries · 1862–1864
Captain Lee reported the satisfactory progress of work on the marine torpedo ram during the past week: the frame was up. The ram was still unfinished when Charleston was evacuated twenty-seven months later.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
A Federal demonstration on John’s Island. With Morris Island taken and Charleston still Confederate, Gillmore spent the winter of 1863–64 pushing at the edges of a defense he could not break.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1
“But little has occurred worthy of note since our last report. Thirty-eight shells have been thrown at the city.” Then this: “we learn through the Yankee papers that Brig. Gen. Scammon, lately confined as a prisoner of war in this city, now commands the artillery on Morris Island and, of course, superintends the bombardment of his former involuntary quarters.” Eliakim Scammon had been one of the Federal officers held under the fire of their own guns.
Charleston Mercury, 15 November 1864, p. 2, “Siege Matters — Four Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Day”
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