Capturing Charleston, the gateway to the South, in June 1862 would have crippled the Confederacy. Impatient with their Naval blockade of the Holy City, the Union Army decided to go for the back door. One man, Thomas Gresham Lamar, held the keys. Additional films within this series focus on details of the June 1862 Battle of Tower Battery.
June, 1862. Capturing Charleston, the gateway to the South, would cripple the Confederacy. Impatient with their Naval blockade of the Holy City, the Union Army decided to go for the back door. One man, Thomas Gresham Lamar, held the keys.
Lesson Plans: Civil War Medicine - Fact or Fiction, Historical Letter Analysis, and Robert Smalls, Civil War Uniforms and Equipment
The Union Army decides the time is right to move into position on James Island and capture Charleston Harbor.
Lesson Plan: Reading Civil War Maps
Confederate forces at the Tower Battery push back against the Union's advancement toward their position.
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Confederate and Union forces clash in a bloody fight.
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Charleston Museum curator, Grahame Long, recounts the story of the war's most renowned Parrott gun and its deadly ordnance: Greek Fire.
Lesson Plan: Ordnance: Historical Photograph Analysis
Pluff mud is a very fine muddy sediment in the tidal creek and low marsh zones that one can sink in. It caused trouble for the Union army while trying to capture Fort Lamar.
Lesson Plans: Salt Marsh Ecosystem