Item description: Newspaper article, “Yankee Views of Charleston,” as published in the Hillsborough Recorder on 4 November 1863 . The Recorder‘s article is a reprint of a report from Washington, D.C., that appeared in the [New York?] Herald on 15 October 1863. The Herald‘s correspondent, who was describing affairs in Charleston, South Carolina, reports that the “Rebels have effectually closed the channel to the city to our fleet, reserving a passage, however, to their own craft.”
Item citation: “Yankee Views of Charleston,” Hillsborough Recorder. 4 November 1863. Hillsborough, N.C. : Dennis Heartt, 1820-1879. C071 H65. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.