February 13, 1865-- Part 1: The Bleak Gets Darker in South Carolina: Charleston To Be Evacuated

FEBRUARY 13TH, 1865:  The end of the Confederacy was fast approaching by now.  General Sherman's on-rushing army approached the Congaree River in South Carolina.  The soldiers would cross it on the 14th, heading for Columbia.

With the fall of Columbia assured and with the supply route to Augusta, Georgia, already cut, General Hardee sped up his preparations to evacuate Charleston and to take troops he took with him from Savannah to North Carolina where he planned to join Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Beauregard.

--Old B-Runner