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Fall of Charleston, South Carolina...
Item # 700477
February 22, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 22, 1865
* Fall of Charleston, South Carolina
* Fort Sumter flying the U.S. flag
Among the front page column headlines on the Civil War are: "CHARLESTON" "The Rebel Garrison Leave Under Cover of Night" "The City Surrendered by Mayor Macbeth" "ITS OCCUPATION BY OUR FORCES" "The Stars and Stripes Wave Over Sumter" "Over Two Hundred Pieces of Artillery Captured" and more.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
background: On February 21, 1865, during the closing months of the American Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, officially surrendered to Union forces. The city had endured a long and grueling siege, particularly after Union troops captured nearby Folly and Morris Islands in 1863 and began relentless artillery bombardments. By early 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman’s advancing forces through the Carolinas made Charleston indefensible. Confederate troops evacuated the city, and Union forces took control, marking a significant symbolic and strategic victory, as Charleston had been a major Confederate port and the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in 1861. The surrender essentially ended Charleston’s role as a Confederate stronghold and foreshadowed the imminent collapse of the Confederacy.
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