This day in Charleston
3 entries · 1863–1864
The Federal chief of artillery on Folly Island wrote up the details of firing and his observations on artillery practice — particularly on the use of the Parrott rifle — during the operations against Fort Sumter. It is one of the first systematic field studies of heavy rifled artillery ever written.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
Federal troops from Hilton Head, including the 54th and 55th Massachusetts, attacked at Honey Hill near Grahamville to cut the Charleston and Savannah Railroad ahead of Sherman’s arrival at the coast. Confederate militia and Georgia troops held a prepared position across a causeway and beat them off with heavy loss. The railroad stayed open — for two more months.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 44
Under the Sequestration Act, the Confederate District Court ordered sold at public auction the lot and brick buildings on the south side of Wentworth Street formerly occupied as a carriage establishment, together with other lots opposite and in rear of the Custom House. The Confederacy was still selling off enemy-owned Charleston real estate eleven weeks before it abandoned the city.
Charleston Mercury, 15 November 1864, p. 2, “In the Confederate Court — South Carolina District”
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