{"id":6268,"date":"2020-10-31T01:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2020-10-09T00:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:43:56","slug":"operations-in-charleston-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-charleston-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Operations in Charleston Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ORDNANCE OFFICE,<em> WASHINGTON, D. C.,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>October <\/em>31<em>, <\/em>1860<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hon. J. B. FLOYD,<br \/>\n<em>Secretary of War:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SIR: There is at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, now in course of construction, besides a part of its armament, a considerable quantity of \u00a0 ammunition, &amp;c., and it has been suggested by the Engineer officer in charge of the work that a few small-arms placed in the hands of his workmen for the protection of the Government property there might be a useful precaution. If the measure should, on being communicated, meet with the concurrence of the commanding officer of the troops in the harbor, I recommend that I may be authorized to issue forty muskets to the Engineer officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With much respect,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>H. K. CRAIG,<\/strong><em><br \/>\nColonel of Ordnance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/transparent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-919\" src=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/transparent.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"6\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[Indorsement.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">WAR DEPARTMENT,<br \/>\n<em>October <\/em>31<em>, <\/em>1860<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Approved:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>J. B. FLOYD, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Secretary of War.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORDNANCE OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., October 31, 1860. Hon. J. B. FLOYD, Secretary of War: SIR: There is at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, now in course of construction, besides a part of its armament, a considerable quantity of \u00a0 ammunition, &amp;c., and it has been suggested by the Engineer officer in charge of the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93778,"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-6268","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\/2015\/10\/War-of-the-Rebellion.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}