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On this day: Union army accepts Charleston’s surrender

On this day (Feb. 18) in 1865, Union Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig’s Division of William Tecumseh Sherman’s all-conquering army entered Charleston, S.C., and accepted its mayor’s formal surrender of what many Northerners considered “the proud birthplace of secession.”

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