This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1863
Beauregard wrote to the Confederate Secretary of War that Charleston would “endeavor to give Commodore DuPont as warm a reception as circumstances will” allow. Six months later Du Pont came in with nine ironclads and got exactly that.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
A lot of coal and iron was shipped from Fort Sumter to the city and Sullivan’s Island overnight. Colonel Gantt relieved Colonel Olmstead at Fort Johnson. The Federals fired not a shot all day; twenty-nine rounds went out from Simkins.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
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