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The Desolation of Charleston

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 1.

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The Desolation of Charleston.

REV. T. L. CUYLER, on visiting Charleston at the restoration of the national flag on fort Sumter, says, "The simple truth is that the 'best blood' of Charleston is in the grave; of the survivors, many are prisoners and refugees, and the handful left here are broken-hearted wrecks. We did not see a solitary young white man who had survived the siege of the city. 'South Carolina,' said Governor Aiken to us, 'has no whites left within her except old men and boys.' Charleston is the most terrific ruin on the globe."