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Thursday, December 27, 1860

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Army Events:

			Operation:	Charleston Harbor, SC	December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861
			Evacuation:	Fort Moultrie, SC	December 26 - 27, 1860

(Source: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Dayton: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1994), 2 vols.)

Naval Events:

U.S. Revenue Cutter Aiken was surrendered to South Carolina authorities.

(Source: Naval History Division, U.S. Navy Department, Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971), pp. I-2-41; II-3-116,2; III-3-169; IV-2-151; V-3-133.)

Additional Information:

Forts Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, and the schooner William Aiken, all in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, surrender to South Carolina State troops.

(Source: Edward McPherson, The Political History Of The United States Of America During The Great Rebellion 1860-1865, of Studies In American History And Government, gen. ed. Leonard W. Levy, (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), pp. 2-47.)