. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■ REVIEWS CO. THE RUINS OF SECESSION HALL, CHARLESTON—1865 Three months before Holmes poem. South Carolinians had cast the die of separation in Secession Hall. It appears to the right of theCircular Church, across the narrow graveyard, its walls blasted by the fire of December, 1861. Here the vote was taken on December20, 1860, declaring that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States under the name of the United States ofAmerica is hereby dissolved. The secession convention was composed of the most experi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■ REVIEWS CO. THE RUINS OF SECESSION HALL, CHARLESTON—1865 Three months before Holmes poem. South Carolinians had cast the die of separation in Secession Hall. It appears to the right of theCircular Church, across the narrow graveyard, its walls blasted by the fire of December, 1861. Here the vote was taken on December20, 1860, declaring that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States under the name of the United States ofAmerica is hereby dissolved. The secession convention was composed of the most experienced men in the State—men who had repre-sented it in the national Congress, judges in the highest courts, eminent divines, and wealthy planters. On the fourth day of its ses-sion, at twelve oclock, the ordinance quoted from above was read with flashing eyes by the venerable judge of chancery, ChancellorInglis. At a quarter past one it was passed unanimously. The doorkeeper passed the word to the policeman without; he called to an-other, and so on unti
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