Everybody knows what happened at Charleston in April 1861, but the war was nearly started a month earlier—by mistake. Long jets of fame and billows of smoke erupted from two 8-inch Columbiads on Cummings Point, at the tip of Morris Island, S.C. The crash of heavy artillery from the Confederate “Iron-clad Battery” rolled across the …
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