On the morning of
Sunday, the 27th [sic],1 we were off Charleston Bar, waiting the
tide and a pilot. Admiral Dahlgren came down in a tug and brought the fleet
pilot, who took us in. Fort Sumter, whose ruins were prominent, we passed, and
Morris and Sullivan's Islands, with their batteries, and anchored the Santiago
near the town.
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1 Sunday was the 28th.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 311
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