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OPERATIONS ON THE COASTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLORIDA.
April 12, 1862-June 11, 1863.
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.*
April 13, 1862.-Major General David Hunter, U. S. Army, orders emancipation of slaves at Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur Island, Ga.
14, 1862.-Reconnaissance on Seabrook Island, Ga.
16, 1862.-Skirmish on Whitemarsh Island, S. C.
18, 1862.-Brigadier General Joseph Finegan, C. S. Army, assumes command of the Department of Middle and East Florida.
19, 1862.-Skirmish on Ediston Island, S. C.
Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, U. S. Army, assigned to special duty in the Department of the South.
29, 1862.-Engagements at Pineberry Battery, Willstown, and White Point, S. C.
May 9, 1862.-Major General David Hunter, U. S. Army, orders the emancipation of slaves in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, and authorized the arming of all able-bodied negroes in those States.
13, 1862.- Adduction of the steamer Planter from Charleston, S. C.
20, 1862.-Bombardment of Cole's Island, S. C.
Affair on Crooked River, Fla.
21, 1862.-Affair near Battery Island, S. C.
22, 1862.-Expedition to John's Island, S. C.
25, 1862.-Affair between James and Dixon's Islands, S. C.
29, 1862.-Skirmish at Pocotaligo, S. C.
June 3, 1862.-Skirmish on James Island, S. C.
6, 1862.-Skirmish on Port Ferry, S. C.
7, 1862.-Skirmish on John's Island, S. C.
8, 1862.-Skirmish on James Island, S. C.
8-9, 1862.-Affairs on John's Island, S. C.
10, 1862.-Skirmish on James Island, S. C.
12, 1862.-Reconnaissance on Hutchinson's Island, S. C.
13, 1862.-Affair at White House, near Hilton Head, S. c.
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*Of some of the minor conflicts noted in this "Summary" no circumstantial reports are on file.
+For instructions to Saxton in reference to abandoned plantations, etc., and resulting correspondence, see Series III, Vol. II.
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- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments