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The City Market is a historic market complex in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.Established in the 1790s, the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall, which faces Meeting Street, through a continuous series of one-story market sheds, the last of which terminates at East Bay Street.
The Charleston riot of 1919, of whites against blacks, was the worst violence in Charleston since the Civil War. The city became a national leader in the historic preservation movement, 1920 to 1940. The city council introduced the nation's first historic district zoning laws in 1931.
Joyful Blacks receive colored troops (with white officers) singing "John Brown's Body" as they led the U.S. Army into Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865. Charleston Harbor was also the site of the first successful submarine attack in history on February 17, 1864, when the H.L. Hunley made a night attack on the USS Housatonic. [8]
"Charleston". South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina. "South Carolina Room". Charleston County Public Library. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21 (Local history) "Charleston Archive". Charleston County Public Library. Archived from the original on February 15, 2009. (Blog)
Humorist George William Bagby was a Richmond, Virginia correspondent of the Charleston Mercury during the Civil War era and "covered the politics of the war and made a reputation for Hermes, his pen name, as a fearless writer who would criticize Confederate General Robert E. Lee as easily as Confederate President Jefferson Davis".
Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy were well-schooled in math and engineering, much less so in military tactics. Many soldiers lacked even rudimentary training ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing ...
Twenty-One Magazine, also known as the Old Charleston Jail, is a structure of historical and architectural significance in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Operational between 1802 and 1939, the jail held many notable figures, among them Denmark Vesey, Union officers and Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and high-seas ...