CHARLESTON [S.C.] MERCURY—JANUARY 24, 1865

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Volume LXXXVI—12,275. 2 pp., 15.75” x 22, five columns. Numerous stories, notes and advertisement. Exhibits fold-marks, light chipping at the extremities. Somewhat faded but entirely legible.

In the waning months of the war, with Gen. Sherman in Savannah and poised for his march north through the Carolinas, the Charleston Mercury breathes defiance in its “Charleston the Point d’ Appui  of the Confederacy” editorial. To wit:

“In our humble judgement the defense of Charleston is essential to the defense of the Confederation. We don’t pretend to be Napoleon on the one hand, or Jefferson Davios on the other. We don’t pretend to be any military strategists, or to be able to see any deeper into a millstone than anybody else. We have our own limited ideas, however, and the great cause for which we all act. In that great cause it is our privilege to speak. , and in behalf of that cause we plead.

What course may be taken in the impending campaign we do not know. It is in other hands, not ours. Yet I appears to us as plain as a nose on a man’s face that here is the point to fight.  Not that we should not fight elsewhere, and everywhere, where the enemy advances; but that here is the point at which to arrest our steps—to stand, or to fall. Here, above all other places, under all existing circumstances, it appears to us, is the point d’appui of the cause.

Others wiser than ourselves, and better informed—in whose hands this matter rests—may think otherwise, may act otherwise; but we know that here the brave soldiers of Georgia and Carolina, and others, who have so long fought here, would love now to fight. For ourselves, we confidently expect some noble work to be done here yet. Charleston cannot fall without it. And we trust she never will fail.” [In the campaign to come Gen Sherman would make a feint toward Charleston, but by-pass it, leaving it to wither on the vine behind him on his march north].

Excellent Civil War Charleston collectible, capturing the mood  of “The  Cradle of the Confederacy” during the concluding months of the war. In protective sleeve w/ white card backing.  [jp][ph:L]

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