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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t. Among the captured property are two hundred pieces of good artillery and a supply of fine ammunition. The enemy burned their cotton warehouses, arsenals, quartermaster stores, railroad bridges, two iron-clads and some vessels in the ship-yard. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. From the New York papers we take the following particulars of the occupation of the city: The evacuation of Charleston was discovered by our forces, under General Schimmelfenning, from James island.--Exactly at what times is not yet reported, though the occupation of the city and of the fortifications took place at about ten o'clock in the forenoon of the 18th instant. The departure of the rebels from Forts Sumter and Moultrie was, it is understood, seen from our picket boats, which reconnoitre the harbor at night; and the operations of the rebel garrisons began about twelve hours before the evacuation was completed — namely, at ten o'clock on the evening of the 17th. Earl
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
eet. This, with the adjoining building on the northeast corner of Minority street, were all burned. Another fire broke out about 11 o'clock in a range of buildings on the west side of Meeting street, next to the court- house. Five buildings were burned; the walls only were left standing.--The alarm of fire Saturday night, in Ward four, was caused by the burning of the inside of a millinery establishment on King street. In addition to the above fires, the new bridge from the city to James island was set on fire, and was still burning on Sunday night. The burning and blowing up of the iron clads Palmetto State, Chicora and Charleston was a magnificent spectacle. The Palmetto State was the first to explode, and was followed by the Chicora about 9 o'clock, and the Charleston about 11 A. M. The latter, it is stated, had twenty tons of gunpowder on board.--Pieces of the iron plates, red hot, fell on the wharves and set them on fire. By the active exertions of Superintendent Tho
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