Charleston was the prize that the Union army and navy desperately sought to capture.
Yet after 567 days of constant attack by infantry, gun.
The defense of Charleston employed every tool available to an outmanned Confederate army.
Army and Navy, Charleston would not relent.
Sherman, declared, "Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed." However, despite bringing to bear the full firepower of the U.
S.
Union General Halleck, in writing to General W.
T.
Charleston was the prize that the Union army and navy desperately sought to capture