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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
as then more prominent than ever against a light gray sky. When the British finally took possession of the city, in the spring of 1780, the bells of St. Michael's were sent to London as spoils of victory. The merchants of that city purchased them, and returned them to the church, where they chimed and chimed, until the conspirators now believed they had sounded the death-knell of the Union, which its vestry, in 1776, zealously assisted to create. St. Michael's spire was the target for General Gillmore's great cannon, called The Swamp angel, during his long siege of Charleston, in the latter years of the civil war. It was afterward found that a shell from the Angel had gone through the church, and, striking the tablet of the Commandments on the wall, effaced every one of them but these:--Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. So declared a writer in the New York Independent, who professed to have been an eye-witness of the effects of the shell. pealed forth Auld Lang