The Bombardment of Charleston

“This heavily researched and insightful volume shines a bright light into a dark corner of Civil War history: the glaringly unnecessary pulverizing of civilian targets in Charleston, carried out solely to punish the city for instigating secession.” —Richard N. Côté, author of Mary’s World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston “ The Bombardment of Charleston: 1863-1865 vividly describes the Union army’s terrible artillery war against Charleston, ‘the nursery of disunion’ an