. Historic towns of the Southern States. s of the victims of the massacre ofWagner, or of those who perished upon the monitorssunk by the agents of the Torpedo Bureau in CharlestonHarbor. It only remains to say that PresidentAndrew Johnson did not share the views ofQuartermaster-General Meigs and that theproperty was restored to the claimants. Ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain, formerlyan officer in the Union army, speaking to arepresentative young Virginian—a great-grand-son of Chief Justice Marshall—in Charlestona few days ago, said : When I walk the streets of this city of 65,000 inhab-itants,
. Historic towns of the Southern States. s of the victims of the massacre ofWagner, or of those who perished upon the monitorssunk by the agents of the Torpedo Bureau in CharlestonHarbor. It only remains to say that PresidentAndrew Johnson did not share the views ofQuartermaster-General Meigs and that theproperty was restored to the claimants. Ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain, formerlyan officer in the Union army, speaking to arepresentative young Virginian—a great-grand-son of Chief Justice Marshall—in Charlestona few days ago, said : When I walk the streets of this city of 65,000 inhab-itants, and more than half of them colored, and when Isee the poverty of its material resources as compared withthe large and flourishing business centres of the North,and when I remember that the population of this city in1861 was not over 41,000, of which not over 24,000 werewhite, I marvel at the blind confidence and fatuity of thispeople in inaugurating the most tremendous war of mod-ern times ; but when 1 walk along the sea wall of the. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM MOULTRIE. FROM A PAINTING BY COL. J. TRUMBULL. 285 286 Charleston Battery and see in the distance Fort Sumter and FortMoultrie and other fortifications which, though often at-tacked, were never carried by storm, I begin to under-stand the wonderful spirit of this people. Charlestoniansheld this stronghold for four years against the mostpowerful fleet of war vessels ever seen up to that time onthis hemisphere. Disastrous fires have destroyed many of thehistoric landmarks of the town, and the mostinteresting public building still standing is theColonial Exchange, built in 1771, at a cost of^41,470. In its basement Colonel Isaac Hayneand other patriot prisoners were confined, andhere General Moultrie walled up one hundredthousand pounds of gunpowder, which re-mained undiscovered during the three yearsthat the British held the town. It was thescene of a ball and public reception in honor ofGeneral Washinofton when he visited C
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