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It was a blockade-runner's port - eventually relieved by Sherman on December 24th 1864, and offered by him as a Christmas present to Lincoln in a humorous telegram.

Everyone expected a battle, but the small Confederate force escaped across the river into South Carolina, and the beautiful city survives in its original glory to this day.

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