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Showing posts with label Sullivan's Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sullivan's Island. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: [Saturday], May 27, 1865

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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 a...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, May 25, 1862

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Confidential  Wabash, 25. May, 62  Port Royal S.C.  My Dear Mr Fox, I arrived last evening from a weeks inspection on the Coast from Georget...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Result Of Gustavus V. Fox's Plan For Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing

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My plan for reinforcing Fort Sumpter was this— From the outer edge of the bar to Sumpter through the swash channel it is four miles in a...
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...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

2nd Lieutenant Norman J. Hall's Notes: Probably Presented to Lincoln and his Cabinet March 15, 1861

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I have the honor to state that I could not concur with Captain Rodgers, with whom I was directed to confer, in his plan for the entrance of...
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...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 22, 1861

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To-day was fixed for the visit to Mr. Pringle's plantation, which lies above Georgetown near the Pedee River. Our party, which consiste...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Governor Francis W. Pickens to David Flavel Jamison, December 28, 1860

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Executive Department, 28th December, 1860. To the Hon. D. F. Jamison, President of the Convention. Sir: As the Convention sent fo...