{"id":11325,"date":"2021-03-31T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2021-03-07T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:44:48","slug":"operations-in-charleston-harbor-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-charleston-harbor-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Operations in Charleston Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">FORT SUMTER,<em> S. C., March <\/em>31<em>, <\/em>1861<em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(Received A. G. O., April <\/em>4<em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Col. L. THOMAS, <em> Adjutant-General U. S. Army:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLONEL<strong>: <\/strong>I have the honor to report that we do not see any work going on this morning. Yesterday, in consequence of the members of the Convention coming down, a great deal of firing of shot and shell took place at Fort Moultrie and from the batteries on Morris Island.<\/p>\n<p>The three batteries outside of the Star of the West have certainly guns of very heavy caliber; this we know from the great extent of the ranges and from the reports.<\/p>\n<p>As our provisions are very nearly exhausted, I have requested Captain Foster to discharge his laborers, retaining only enough for a boat&#8217;s crew. I hope to get them off to-morrow. The last barrel of flour was issued day before yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I am colonel very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> ROBERT ANDERSON, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Major, First Artillery, Commanding.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT SUMTER, S. C., March 31, 1861. (Received A. G. O., April 4.) Col. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army: COLONEL: I have the honor to report that we do not see any work going on this morning. Yesterday, in consequence of the members of the Convention coming down, a great deal of firing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-11325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies","8":"tag-operations-in-charleston-harbor"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/War-of-the-Rebellion-Official-Records-e1617334712502.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}