Confederates abandon battered Charleston
Sunday, April 24, 2011
On the 514th day of the siege, Charleston was quiet. No shells would be hurled at the city that day -- Monday, Dec. 5, 1864 -- as Confederate and Union troops had called a temporary truce to exchange prisoners.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
The Confederate flag was falling -- a slow-motion, seemingly endless cascade into the smoking rubble below. On that day, June 20, 1864, it appeared the flag would be just another casualty in the continued bombardment of Fort Sumter, another fallen soldier.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
A military escort led the casket deep into Magnolia Cemetery, where a sizable crowd of onlookers waited quietly at the grave. It was Sunday, Nov. 8, 1863, and the occasion was becoming all too common in Charleston.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
The little boat slipped out of Charleston Harbor just after dark, hugging the edge of the channel as it made for the blockade.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
A tropical storm blew through the Lowcountry on Monday night, Aug. 24, 1863, forcing a brief cease-fire in the siege of Charleston. When the sun rose the next morning, locals finally had a chance to survey the damage from the weekend's bombardment.
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Civil War: 150 years, part fifteen of twenty
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The bodies were scattered over the dunes and scrub, contorted in unnatural positions, their faces frozen by the onset of rigor mortis.
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CIVIL WAR: 150 YEARS - Part FOURTEEN OF TWENTY
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Something about Folly Island didn't look quite right. As the night faded to a dull gray on Friday morning, July 10, 1863, the Confederate troops guarding the southern tip of Morris Island stared across the inlet, trying to figure out how Folly had changed. They soon realized that,...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
The gunboats sailed into the Stono a little farther every day, shooting at troops on James Island before slipping back out to sea. It began in the fall of 1862 and continued into the winter of 1863, the Yankees growing more brazen each week.
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Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011
It was unlike anything that had ever sailed into Charleston Harbor. The ship was 150 feet long with a low, flat deck that quickly gave way to a steep, sloping, ironclad casemate. Peeking out of this floating fortress were the barrels of four considerable guns.
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Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011
The blockade runner was hugging the shore of Dewees Island, trying to sneak into Charleston Harbor before first light. But the Nellie wouldn't make it. The steamer had sailed from Nassau with hopes of slipping past the gunboats and selling its cargo.
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