. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . our guns, and were broughtthere and put in the Preble house, an old Colonial man-sion, not far from the battery that runs along the waterfront of the city. Col. \\^alter C. Harriman of the nthX. H. regiment and later governor of New Hampshire,was one of the fifty prisoners. Providentially, or other-wise, not one of our shots struck the Preble house duringall the bombarding. In the fall of 1905 I visited the city of Charleston,and an intensely interesting \isit it was. The part of the REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OP^ THE REBELLION city that w
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . our guns, and were broughtthere and put in the Preble house, an old Colonial man-sion, not far from the battery that runs along the waterfront of the city. Col. \\^alter C. Harriman of the nthX. H. regiment and later governor of New Hampshire,was one of the fifty prisoners. Providentially, or other-wise, not one of our shots struck the Preble house duringall the bombarding. In the fall of 1905 I visited the city of Charleston,and an intensely interesting \isit it was. The part of the REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OP^ THE REBELLION city that was burned from the effects of onr shells firedfrom the Swamp Angel, had many years before been re-built, Init there were many marks of our bombarding up-on the buildings nearest the water front. I went into theSt. Michaels church that was hit many times by ourshells, the janitor pointing out to me the pulpit andthe pews that had replaced those that weredestroyed; numerous holes in the walls of thechurch that had been filled the marks plainly to be seen. CHARLESTON IN RUINS. both outside and in; numerous pieces of the very shellsthat had come from our guns, large and small, wereshown me; I also visited Fort Sumter, this fort havingbeen reconstructed into a modern battery, with 12-inchbreech loading rifle guns. I also visited the Preble house,where our officers as prisoners were held under lire fromour guns. 276 CAPTURE OF FORT WAGXER AND BATTERY GREGG Some years after the close of the War, the negroesof the South had collected a fund to build a monumentto Colonel Shaw, of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment,who led the brave colored troops in the terriblecharge upfon Fort Wagner during the siege of the of erecting a monument of stone and bronze, itwas decided to build a more fitting and practical memo-rial in establishing a school for colored children in theCity of Charleston. It was upon this trip that I visitedthis school. Starting out one morning from the hotel to se
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