by DrRoger | Sep 14, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
By the latter half of 1863, the Union blockade of Charleston had matured and the majority of blockade runners who sailed under the cover of the night never returned. Looking to improve his odds, Captain Jack Holmes sailed the “Will O’ the Wisp”...
by DrRoger | Sep 4, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The foundational cracks in the Union over slavery and the issue of States’ Rights were necessarily exploited by a parade of Southern nationalists promoting a narrative passionate enough to stir men to action, move them into the streets, beat the drums, shout...
by DrRoger | Sep 1, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
By the fall of 1863, Charleston faced a new and unprecedented threat. With the capture of Morris Island, the Union Army constructed a long-range, two-hundred-pound Parrott rifle hidden in the Morris Island marsh grass. The cannon was dubbed the “Swamp...
by DrRoger | Aug 14, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Then, as well as now, Charleston prefers an unhurried pace and a conservative nature. Charleston’s charms provide too many diversions from rebellious indignation. Charleston’s planter elite balanced their radical politics with an equally ardent taste for...
by DrRoger | Aug 10, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The ability of the Southern Blockade runners, like the “Will O’ the Wisp” to pass undetected between them at night so immensely frustrated the Union captains in command of the Charleston blockade that they began to refer to the runners as...
