Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Advance upon Charleston

From the Petersburg Express, May 22.

AUGUSTA, Ga., May 21 – The Charleston papers of this morning state the four Federal vessels shelled Colesgate and Kiawassa Islands yesterday morning.  The Confederates retreated, burning their quarters &c.  Colsgate is 12 of 15 miles from Charleston.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3

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