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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 22 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 14 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 9 1 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 8 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], How the British captured Charleston. (search)
How the British captured Charleston. --"Ora," of the Mobile Tribune, writes from Charleston: During the revolution of '76, when the British attacked Charleston, they came up the Stono river and North Edisto Inlet to Rantoul's, which is one mile from the Savannah Railroad, and twelve from Charleston. They surprised General Moultrie at Stono, at which battle the brave Colonel Jawrehee was killed. The British headed the Ashley river at the ferry, nine miles above Charleston, and attacked our fortifications at Charleston Neck, which they carried after a siege of five weeks, and compelled the city of Charleston to capitulate from famine. This portion of our present fortifications is called the Second Military District, and protects the communications from North Edisto to Charleston. Should the Yankees attempt to approach from that direction they would find it a hard road to travel, as we have a line of fortifications at this point protecting the passage of Ranfoul's Creek, a