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713: 36: 603: 625: 844:, for their annual encampment and graduation exercises. The excellent military work of the cadets suggested to Dr. Benjamin H. Teague, a Confederate Veteran and a collector of Confederate relics, to present to the Citadel a medal for the winner of the Best Drilled Cadet competition. Among his many curios, Teague had a piece of oak from the Steam Ship 848:. He sawed a small piece of this wood into the shape of a star and had it mounted on a gold medal. The recipient would wear the medal for one year and then pass it to the next recipient. The winner's names are inscribed on the "Star of the West" monument on the college grounds. However, the original medal with the wood has been lost to history. 866:(1992). Although Updike's protagonist is trying (in the early 1990s) to write about the mid-1970s, he spent those years seeking to write a book about President Buchanan, and his mind keeps reverting to the 19th century and, among other incidents, the mission of the sloop to Fort Sumter. 548:
The ship was later captured by Confederate forces, then used for several purposes including as a hospital ship and a blockade runner, and finally scuttled in defense of Vicksburg in 1863.
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suffered no major damage, her captain, John McGowan, considered it to be too dangerous to continue and turned about to leave the harbor. The mission was abandoned, and
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to block the passage of the Union flotilla. In a skirmish on April 12, 1863, the Union forces suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw.
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escaped recapture when she was sent to transport gold, silver, and paper currency worth millions of dollars. After delivering that cargo to
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approaching Fort Sumter (center right), under fire from batteries on Morris Island (far left) and Fort Moultrie (far right)
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Cadets in Grey: The Story of the Cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy and the Cadet Rangers in the Civil War
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to attack Vicksburg from the rear, Confederate defenders hurriedly constructed Fort Pemberton, and Major General
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incident was received by Gov. Pickens at his temporary executive headquarters at 107 (now 155) Meeting Street.
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units, the Wigfall Guards and the Island City Rifles. Two days later, the ship was taken to
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from the United States, but before other states had done so to form the Confederacy,
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to transport military supplies and reinforcements to the U.S. military garrison of
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The Star of the West Medal is awarded annually to the "best drilled cadet" at
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forces in 1863. In January 1861, the ship was hired by the government of the
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was an American merchant steamship that was launched in 1852 and scuttled by
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from July 1853 to March 1856. In June 1857, she started the New York-to-
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collected $ 175,000 in damages from the U.S. government for the loss.
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was a 1,172-ton steamship built by Jeremiah Simonson, of
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and two masts. She started service between New York and
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until September 1859, when it went onto the New York,
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Charleston, South Carolina in the American Civil War
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on September 20, 1852 and continued the service for
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The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
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Index

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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Charles Morgan
U.S. Mail Steamship Company
U.S. Department of War
Steamship
Events leading to
American Civil War
End of Atlantic slave trade
Panic of 1857
Northwest Ordinance
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Missouri Compromise
Nullification crisis
Gag rule
Tariff of 1828
End of slavery in British colonies
Texas Revolution
Texas annexation
Mexican–American War
Wilmot Proviso
Nashville Convention
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Kansas–Nebraska Act
Ostend Manifesto
Caning of Charles Sumner
Lincoln–Douglas debates
1860 presidential election

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