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As Confederate cavalry retreats Columbia surrenders to Sherman. Union forces are overwhelmed by liberated Federal prisoners and emancipated African Americans. During the night's drunken revelry, fires break out in the city and much of it burns.

Did not involve Major General William Sherman's main force, marching from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, but was a failed Union Army expedition under Gen John Hatch that attempted to cut off the Charleston and Savannah Railroad in support of She...

After unsuccessful attempts to capture Fort Wagner by stom, Union commanders decided to lay siege to the fort with constant bombardment. The defending confederate troops help out for a further 60 days before the position became untenable.

Brig Gen Gillmore successfully diverts Confederate reinforcements from a renewed attack on nearby Fort Wagner. Maj Terry demonstrated against confederate defenses on James Island and the subsequent Confederate attack was repulsed.

South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the Union shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession