{"id":2274,"date":"2010-06-20T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2010-06-20T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:36:23","slug":"the-battle-of-port-royal-november-17-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/20\/the-battle-of-port-royal-november-17-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Port Royal, November 17, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32964\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2275\" style=\"margin: 10px\" title=\"Battle of Port Royal, artist's impression\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/HD_PortRoyal1861CI-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/HD_PortRoyal1861CI-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/HD_PortRoyal1861CI-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/HD_PortRoyal1861CI.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In its inaugural issue published on March 15, 1862 the <em>New South<\/em>, a weekly periodical with Northern sympathies, described the Union capture of Port Royal, South Carolina on November 7, 1861 as a \u201cbrisk little engagement with the enemy at Port Royal Ferry, in which the National forces, both Army and Navy manifested pluck and coolness the most desirable qualities in soldier&#8217;s or sailors.\u201d This newspaper, which was highlighted in a p<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/02\/17\/the-new-south-newspaper-1862-1866\/\" target=\"_blank\">revious post<\/a>, documents life in occupied Port Royal through 1866 and is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc.edu\/library\/digital\/collections\/newsouth.html\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. \u00a0As part of Union efforts to enforce the executive-mandated blockade on the South, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/12827\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Samuel F. Du Pont<\/a>, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron was sent to Port Royal, South Carolina where he helped capture Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard in the largest combined naval and military operation up to that point. The Civil War Blockade Strategy Board met during the summer of 1861 created a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslegion.net\/the_civil_war_blockade_strategy_board_reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that informed the Union\u2019s naval blockading strategy including Du Pont\u2019s attack on Port Royal. \u00a0Matthew Parker made these reports fully available on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslegion.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Legion<\/a>\u201d a website that organizes Civil War primary documents for easy research. \u00a0Other useful resources include the Library of Congress\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/cwphtml\/tl1861.html\" target=\"_blank\">visual time line<\/a> of the Civil War, which contains a <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/cwphtml\/tl1861.html\" target=\"_blank\">collection of photographs<\/a> from Port Royal, South Carolina from 1861 to 1865, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/battle-of-port-royal.htm\" target=\"_blank\">detailed essay<\/a> on the battle of Port Royal, which appeared in the January 2001 issue of <em>America\u2019s Civil War<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its inaugural issue published on March 15, 1862 the New South, a weekly periodical with Northern sympathies, described the Union capture of Port Royal, South Carolina on November 7, 1861 as a \u201cbrisk little engagement with the enemy at Port Royal Ferry, in which the National forces, both Army and Navy manifested pluck and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171,156,174],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","category-images","category-recent-scholarship","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}