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The Destruction of Charleston in the Civil War
This page is viewed 159 times Smithsonian MagazinePhotographs from the 1860s reveal how Union bombardment and a blazing fire devastated much of the South Carolina city
On April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery bombarded the Union-occupied Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, no one could have predicted that the Civil War would last almost five years and cause nationwide disruption, destruction and chaos. Union forces never conquered Charleston, a cosmopolitan city and home to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Nevertheless, it was nearly destroyed by fire and bombardment, and was a ghost town by war' s end. Confederate forces abandoned Charleston on February 15, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman threatened to raze the city during his "March to the Sea." In May 1865, Sherman toured the city, proclaiming that "Any one who is not satisfied with war should go to Charleston and he will pray louder and deeper than ever that, the country, in its long future be spared any more war."What follows are a series of photographs depicting the wreckage Sherman witnessed and the resurrected Charleston as it exists today.
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