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Using military records, diaries, and even vintage photographs, the author explores this period through eyewitness accounts. He agrees with many contemporary opinions that this deliberate and wanton destruction was a Union attempt to 'make Charleston pay for her sins.'
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Phelps, who owns a walking-tour company in Charleston, obtained the eyewitness accounts of the 545-day bombardment of Charleston by the Union army from archives of the South Carolina Historical Society supplemented with the accounts preserved in Charleston's 19th-century newspapers. Quotes from these accounts appear throughout Phelps' narrative of the lengthy bombardment. According to the title page, this volume was previously published in 1999; we are not told by whom. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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