Nov. 24, 1861: Georgia - Near Savannah, U.S. troops and a squadron of USN gunboats sortie from the new Federal base at Port Royal, South Carolina, and land a force of troops on Tybee Island, a sea island at the mouth of the Savannah River, just below Ft. Pulaski, the principal Rebel defense work for the city of Savannah. Union engineers immediately begin to build gun emplacements on the island that will bear on Fort Pulaski.
Mr. Jesse Bernard of North Carolina notes in his journal:
"Our Church is in a very low state and the Sunday School nearly extinct. This morning, we had but four scholars including my little Overton – no male teachers and only two female teachers – no girls present. This war is working harm to the church, I fear. The public mind is so engrossed as to lose sight of spiritual things. Nothing good seems to prosper in our town. The Division of Sons of Temperance, that in the beginning of the year, started under such favorable auspices, has gone down, and I fear, will not be resusicated directly. . . . The resent war is assuming gigantic proportions. Great battles momentarily looked for in Kentucky and Virginia, Port Royal in S.C. is taken and Pensacola is now being attacked. May God bless our arms and defend us from the hands of our enemies. Though the odds are against us, my trust is in Him who alone giveth the victory."
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