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Size: 6 x 8
Pages: 208
Illustrations: 114 b&w halftones

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Smoke on the Battery

Charleston and the Longest Siege of the Civil War

Stephen R. Wise

Paperback
978-1-64336-663-0
Published: Oct 27 2026

$22.99

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Ebook
978-1-64336-664-7
Published: Oct 27 2026

OA Ebook
978-1-64336-664-7
Published: Oct 27 2026

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The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of

A concise history of Civil War Charleston




Stephen R. Wise is the former director of the Parris Island Museum and he serves on the editorial board for the South Carolina Historical Magazine. He is the author of two books published by the University of South Carolina Press—Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War and Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston Harbor 1863, named by the South Carolina Historical Society as the best book written on South Carolina History in 1994.

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