In the early morning hours, the chartered steamship Star of the West, with supplies and 250 artillerymen and marines to reinforce Fort Sumter, arrived outside Charleston Harbor, doused her lights, and waited for dawn. As she made for the harbor, she came under fire from South Carolina forces on Morris Island. When two steam vessels approached from Fort Moultrie, she was forced to retreat and arrived back in New York on January 12, 1860. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America (Mansfield, OH: Estill & Co., 1866), 155-156.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
