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Palmetto Past & Present: Fort Sumter’s Two Surrenders
How the bluster of a hotheaded South Carolina “colonel” nearly extended the first engagement in the War Between the States.
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Only soldiers killed in the battle?
Privates Daniel Hough and Edward Galloway were killed during the firing of a one hundred gun “salute”. They accidently ignited the canon charge of the gun they were loading, killing them, blowing the canon up and wounding four others. That accident would be the cause of the first two fatalities of a 4-year war that would claim the lives of 750,000 Americans.
The “salute” was really a thinly veiled opportunity to use what little gunpowder Andreson had remaining. After the explosion that ended the salute at shot 50, Hough was buried in Fort Sumter’s parade ground while Galloway and 4 others were evacuated to Charleston with the rest of the wounded where he would die in hospital.