The Rebels evacuate Charleston...

Item # 682975

February 28, 1865

THE WORLD, New York, Feb. 28, 1865

* Charleston, South Carolina evacuation
* Confederates leave the self destroyed city

Formatted very much like its competitors, the Times, Tribune & Herald.
Among the front page first column heads on the Civil War: "THE SOUTH" "Charleston Evacuated for Strategic Reasons" "Urgent Appeal to the People fort Sustain the Armies" " "A Dictator Openly Demanded by a Richmond Paper" "CHARLESTON" "Graphic Details of the Capture of the City" "The Home of the Chivalry in Ruins" "Two Miles of Buildings Reduced to Ashes" "Reported Capture of Charlottesville, N.C. by Gen. Sherman" and more.
Eight pages, very nice condition.

AI notes: In February 1865, Confederate forces evacuated Charleston, South Carolina, as Union General William T. Sherman's troops advanced through the Carolinas. The Confederates withdrew, setting fires and destroying supplies to prevent their capture. Union forces entered the city the next day, and the U.S. flag was raised over Fort Sumter, symbolizing the nearing end of the Civil War and reclaiming the site where the conflict had begun in 1861. Charleston’s fall marked a major symbolic and strategic victory for the Union.