This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863
“It is with no ordinary feeling of gratification and pride that the brigadier-general commanding is enabled to congratulate this army upon the signal success which has crowned” its operations. Gillmore’s general order for the taking of Morris Island — a campaign that cost his army some 2,300 men and did not take Charleston.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1
At five past eleven in the morning the magazine at Battery Cheves on James Island exploded, killing a lieutenant and four men and wounding two others. It was thought a sergeant had been trying to draw a short-time fuze from a shell to replace it with a longer one. All four men in the magazine were killed, so the cause could only be guessed at. No gun was damaged.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
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