Tuesday, December 25, 1860

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Army Events:

Operation: Charleston Harbor, SC December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861

(Source: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Dayton: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1994), 2 vols.)


Additional Information:

Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Federal garrison at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina, decides in the evening to withdraw his troops to Fort Sumter in the middle of Charleston Harbor, but rain and heavy fog delays the actual departure until December 26.

(Source: James R. Arnold & Roberta Wiener, eds., The Timechart of the Civil War (St. Paul, Mn.: MBI Publishing Co., 2001), pp. 33-64.)



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