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He was injured when a gun went off prematurely on April 14, 1861, during a 100-gun salute to the flag after the Battle of Fort Sumter. The explosion killed Hough, severely injured Galloway, and slightly injured four other men. He was taken to the Gibbes Hospital in Charleston, where he died five days later on April 19, 1861.
That’s about 1.5 miles from Arnaud Street, and near the University of South Carolina-Sumter campus. Rodgers pulled over and a gun was found during a search of the vehicle, police said.
The battery was constructed on the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina in view of the Union forces at Ft. Sumter near the mouth of Charleston harbor. Construction began in January 1861, under the leadership of Lieutenant John R. Hamilton formerly an officer in the United States Navy and the son of a former governor of South Carolina. [8]
The Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.
A 20-year-old South Carolina man is in jail for shooting a woman after she asked him to stop firing his rifle toward her property, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said.. The woman is in ...
Daniel Hough (c. 1825 – April 14, 1861) was an Irish-born American soldier who became the first man to die in the American Civil War.His death was accidental, caused by a cannon that went off prematurely during a salute to the flag after the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina, to defend the region from a naval invasion.It was built after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack.
It was the first time in the history of South Carolina that a white man was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man. [40] While on death row, Gaskins said he committed between 100 and 110 murders, [41] including that of Margaret "Peg" Cuttino, the 13-year-old daughter of then South Carolina State Senator James Cuttino Jr. of Sumter ...