May 29, 2014
"The small number of artillerists now in the department": The artillery of the Department of the South, Spring 1864
"The small number of artillerists now in the department": The arty in Dept of the South, Spring 1864 #CharlestonSeige150
Major-General John G. Foster assumed command of the Department of the South on May 26, 1864. Foster served at Charleston (specifically Fort Moultrie) before the war, had been second in command at Fort Sumter when the war started, but spent much of the next two years in North Carolina. Foster was familiar with Charleston… and with making do with small garrison forces along the coast.
Among the…
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