On the 7th of November, 1861 Union forces captured Port Royal Island, the main harbor of the Sea Islands which were located off the South Carolina coast. The Confederate Fort Walker fell to the Union Navy, and the white plantation owners fled the island. The large slave population remained and the Union army allowed them to continue farming the land.
Please log in to
consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing
institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on
campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we
offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If
you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal
subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.
59 words