American Artifacts Preview: Images of Charleston, South Carolina in 1865

[phaskellhall]

As a photographer from Charleston, I would LOVE to embed this video on my blog and send a ton of traffic to it....why does cspan prevent embedding on their videos?

[whippoorwillss]

How did that fire start? When was it?

[jjmacjjmac]

@whippoorwillss@whippoorwillss An account by telegraph in Harper's Weekly 12-28-1861 says the fire started 12-11-1861 at 9 PM from a Negro insurrection that had been raging in Charleston for two days.

[Grafknar]

@whippoorwillss It began not long after the firing on Ft. Sumter, destroying much of the lower peninsula. No one knows exactly how it started.