CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Union forces took the siege of Charleston harbor up a notch on Aug. 2, 1863, as they began constructing a battery further inland to bomb the city of Charleston directly.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Charleston has always been a city that stands for something--a defiant port, a rebellion's ...