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Identifier: charlestonplacep00rave (find matches)
Title: Charleston, the place and the people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912
Subjects: Charleston (S.C.) -- History South Carolina -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he roadway was so blocked with carriages that boys crossed from the pavement to the sea-wall jumping from one roof to another rather than risk a passage among the horse hoofs. When a country regiment marched down, it was impossible to make room. It had to turn back to the Battery Garden. For two hours the shelling went steadily on with no response from Sumter. Even the flag did not go up until the sun rose; then with military precision it slowly ascended the staff and floated out to the breeze. Major Anderson was saving ammunition, and his men were having breakfast, he afterward explained. At seven the fort began firing and kept on steadily though slowly all day. It was said to be the first battle on record between two forts firing at each other, as Moultrie and Sumter hurled their shot across the channel. The anxiety was awful; those batteries were filled with the men of the town. Everything from eighteen to sixty was there. The first blaze of excitement was over. CONFEDERATE CHARLESTON, THE END 493
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VSaMcw ^^TfVT^ I^«^4JIY- Old Warehouses near East Bay and as the hours went on a silent, mute dread took possession,— all were keyed to too high a pitch for audible emotion. Not a woman looking on but had her heart on 494 CHARLESTON one of those islands. Have you any relative there?asked a stranger of one young girl. My five brothers, she answered, — white, but calm. The old men moved about restlessly; one or two muttered something about the War of 1812 ! At last, at four in the afternoon, word came that noone was hurt — then rang out a shout that shook the towers! Some women burst into tears, — one or two fainted. How such a miracle came to pass has never been explained. Shot and shell, admirably aimed, had been flying to and fro for twelve hours. Guns had been dismounted, walls breached, batteries damaged, but no blood had been shed on either fort or islands ! All that night and next day the cannonade went on. By twelve oclock a smoke was seen to rise from the fort — it had beenfi

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