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Monday, February 17, 2025

Major Anderson

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Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, U. S. A., has achieved the unenviable distinction of opening civil war between American citizens by an act of gross br...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Friday, December 13, 1861

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Batteries A and B were ordered to report near Conrad's Ferry, where we arrived before sunrise, it being only five miles from our camp. W...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Headquarters, Confederate Provisional Forces, Charleston, South Carolina: General Order No. 9, April 6, 1861

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Headquarters, Prov. Forces, Charleston, S. C, U. S. A ., April 6, 1861. General Order No. 9. The following general instructions ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 11. – Report of Lieut. Col. Roswell S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery

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No. 11. Report of Lieut. Col. R. S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery. HEADQUARTERS ARTILLERY, Sullivan's Isl...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 21. – Reports of Capt. George B. Cuthbert, Palmetto Guard, South Carolina Infantry.

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No. 21. Reports of Capt. G. B. Cuthbert, Palmetto Guard, South Carolina Infantry. PALMETTO GUARD ENCAMPMENT, Morris Island, April...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Diary of John Hay: Saturday, January 23, 1864

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Saturday night I went on board the Ben Deford with the General to visit Folly and Morris Islands. Col. J——, Major B——, Capt. R—— and F—— we...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Memorandum of Different Plans for Re-Enforcing Fort Sumter

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Memoranda read before the President and Cabinet, General Scott and Commodore Stringham, and Mr. Fox, late of the Navy, Washington, March 15...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Major Robert Anderson to Colonel Samuel Cooper, March 9, 1861

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fort Sumter , March 9, 1861. (Received A. G. O., March 12.) Colonel S. Cooper, Adjutant-General. United States Army. Colonel: I h...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Captain John G. Foster to Brevet Brigadier-General Joseph G. Totten, March 6, 1861

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Fort Sumter, S. C , March 6, 1861. General : I have the honor to report that during the day, and especially towards night, unusual ac...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, December 26, 1864

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Everything is quiet this morning, though for a while last night there was quite an excitement in town when a fire broke out. We are still l...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Letter from a South Carolina Mother to Charlotte Cross Wigfall, December 15, 1863

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Dec. 15th, 1863. I have passed many anxious months lately, in this siege of Charleston. My only child and son was at Fort Sumter, a Fir...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 17, 1861

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There was a large crowd around the pier staring at the men in uniform on the boat, which was filled with bales of goods, commissariat store...