This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1863
General Beauregard superseded Pemberton in command of the Department of South Carolina and Georgia. He had left the city in May 1861 as the man who took Fort Sumter; he returned to defend it, and he held it through the ironclad attack, Morris Island, and the opening of the bombardment.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
The engineer at Fort Sumter reported that some of the torpedoes placed around the fort the night before had exploded during the night — possibly, he thought, from the washing of the waves, having been laid too close in. Charleston’s harbor defense was improvised, effective, and dangerous to the people who laid it. The same day Gillmore, on Morris Island, acknowledged his commission as a major general of volunteers.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
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