This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Rain until ten. The James Island batteries were being rearmed under orders issued two days earlier, and the transfer of the guns had to be done with the light artillery’s horses and harness — much of which, the journal notes, gave way or was otherwise injured. Moving a 10-inch columbiad through wet sand cost more than the gun was worth.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
The blockade runner Flamingo was destroyed off Charleston. By the autumn of 1864 the trade was nearly finished here: the Federal batteries on Morris Island covered the main channel, and the runners that still tried it were going in over the shallow inlets or not at all.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 35, Pt. 1
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