[Color image.] Caption (in French): 'Evenements des Etats-Unis: Charleston et ses fortifications. [Events of the United States: Charleston and its fortifications.] 1--Charleston. 2--Riviere Ashley [Ashley River]. 3--Chemin de fer de Savannah [Savannah Railway]. 4--Riviere Cooper [Cooper River]. 5--Riviere Wando [Wando River]. 6--Fort Pinkney [Castle Pinckney]. 7--Fort Ripley. 8--Fort Johnson (ile James) [James Island]. 9--Riviere Stone [Stono River]. 10--Fort Sumter. 11--Fort Moultrie. 12--Batterie Gregg (pointe de Gumming) [Battery Gregg (Cummings Point)]. 13--Fort Wagner. 14--Batteries rasantes du general Gilmore [grazed batteries of General Gilmore]. 15--Ouvrages pris par les federaux. [Works undertaken by the Federals]. 16--Phare Inlet [Lighthouse inlet]. 17--Batteries federales (ile Folly) [Federal Batteries (Folly Island)]. 18--Canonnieres et vaisseaux cuirasses [gunboats and ironclads]. 19--Hotel. 20--Ile et batteries Sullivan [Sullivan Island and Batteries]. 21--Moultrie. 22--Mont Pleasant [Mount Pleasant]. 23--Breach Inlet. 24--Shem Creek. 25--Batteries construite par les confederes sur l'ile James, dans le voisinage du fort Johnson [Batteries built by the Confederates on James Island, in the vicinity of Fort Johnson].
Caption: 'Bombardment of Fort Sumter, as sketched from Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, S.C.' Identified in image: Mortar Battery, Fort Johnson; James Island; City; Castle Pinckney; Fort Sumter; Mount Pleasant; Floating Battery; Mortar Battery; Fort Moultrie; Enfilading Battery; Iron Battery; Sand-bag cover for reserve; Traverse behind Trapier Battery and Magazine covered with sand bags.
Correspondence from Reverend Henry D. Singleton to James Price, Chairman for the Charleston County Council, regarding the Sol Legare Day Care Center on James Island, South Carolina.
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
"A color scan of a scrapbook page with a letter and annotation. The letter from the Bureau written by Major J.E. Cornelius orders Everson to James Island, SC to complete a census focusing on ability and poverty. Everson is to settle the claims of Freed people holding possessory titles for land on the island and instruct those Freed people who have not contracted work to do so or they must leave. Everson's annotation mentions that a full report and the proceedings regarding the ""settlement of these 'land titles' under which freedmen had located '40 acres for each adult"" under Sherman's order No. 15 and refugees could be found in his book of retained copies of reports."
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
"A scrapbook page with copies of two letters and two endorsements. The first letter is from Everson to H.W. Smith A.A. General regarding validity of land titles held on Royall Plantation. It is unclear to Everson whether or not, under ""Special Field orders. No. 15,"" individuals who hold titles but do not live on the land are considered to be holding valid land titles. In effect, can parties hold titles by proxy? This is a common problem. The endorsement response from Bvt Major General Robert Kingston Scott and H.W. Smith declares that titles cannot be held by proxy, individuals must be living on the land for the title to be valid. The second letter from Everson to Smith concerns an incorrect last name on a land title and questions whether or not the title is still valid. The endorsement confirms that it is. "
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with two letters from Major J.E. Cornelius. The first informs Everson that he is to refer to general order No. 9 Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner of Bureau for South Carolina for his conduct while on James Island. Cornelius requests a detailed report of action taken so far by military authorities with regard to General Sherman's Special Field order No. 15 in removing Freedmen from lands and also sick Freedmen and women from hospitals. The second letter mentions that Cornelius has sent Lieutenant Green to Charleston for rations for four hundred people and if Everson can find him he may retain some for people on James Island.
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with a letter and an annotation. The letter from H.W. Smith discusses land and housing disputes and restoration. Everson's annotation discusses how, with restoration of plantations, the door has been opened for the settlement of land titles and job opportunities--which many freedmen refused.