Ella Wood
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Hal Jespersen’s 2013 Civil War Travelogues, Charleston and Savannah
A wall mural in the library of the Citadel, Charleston's military academy, of the Citadel's cadets firing guns on Morris Island in Charleston harbor, aimed at the Star of the West, a Union ship sent to resupply Fort Sumter on Jan. 9, 1861.
Battle of Port Royal, Nov. 7, 1861. This map of the SC coast shows the strategic location of Port Royal. Its capture gave the Union control over the entire coast, except Charleston. Blockade vessels could be suppled, repaired, and fueled there. And it was ideally situated for troop training and outfitting in the siege against Charleston.
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Major Robert Anderson, United States Army, a Southern sympathizer, was sent to take charged of Federal military properties in Charleston harbor after Sucession (Dec. '61) and charged to keep the peace. As the situation escalated and state positions were strengthened, he sent to Washington repeatedly for instruction. None was ever given. Anderson was left to his own devices. He had little choice but to surrender Fort Sumter after its bombardment in April.
This is Hilton Head Island near Fort Walker overlooking Port Royal Sound where the naval Battle of Port Royal established a Union beachhead early in the war (Nov. 1861). The Union used Hilton Head as a base of operations for the Atlantic blockade as well as operations against the coastline, particularly those against Charleston.
SC Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens took office just one month before the state voted to seceded. Despite the formation of the Confederacy in February 1861, Pickens continued to aggressively build up state defenses all around Fort Sumter with plans to fire on it in mid-Feb. President Jefferson Davis had to admonish him to not start a war but leave the decision to the new Confederate government.