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"Ruins in Charleston, S.C." from Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign by George N. Barnard. Charleston, South Carolina, played a pivotal role at the start of the American Civil War as a stronghold of secession and an important Atlantic port for the Confederate States of America.
The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s.
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [9] ... U.S. soldiers liberated the city within the ...
During their military operations in Florida, the 1st South Carolina liberated enslaved people and recruited them into the Union Army. [22] The 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment did an expedition up the St. Mary's River along the Georgia-Florida state line which lasted from January 23 to February 1, 1863.
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today Charleston), the capital of South Carolina, between March 29 and May 12, 1780.
British General Henry Clinton. Throughout the course of the American Revolutionary War, over 200 battles were fought within South Carolina, more than in any other state.On November 19, 1775, Patriot forces of the Long Cane Militia fought Loyalists in the first battle of Ninety Six, resulting in the death of James Birmingham, the first South Carolinian and southerner of the war.
1794 – Charleston Mechanic Society [22] founded. 1797 – South Carolina Weekly Museum (magazine) begins publication. [1] 1798 – Bank of South Carolina established. 1799 – Yellow fever outbreak. [23] 1800 Santee Canal (Columbia-Charleston) built. [16] Population: 18,824. [20] Charleston has largest Jewish population of any city in the US. [1]
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.