"On June 16, 1862, Union forces tried to capture Charleston, South Carolina, by landing on one of the coastal barrier islands and marching overland to approach the city from behind. Confederates blocked the move, thus foiling the Federal army's most serious attempt to capture the city by land during the war. Federals would instead rely on a naval blockade to try, unsuccessfully, to seal off one of the most symbolically important cities of the Confederacy"--

Jim Morgan is a co-founder and past president of the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table in Charleston, SC. He is a member of the board of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust. He also is a past president of the Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable in Leesburg, VA, and was a co-founder and chairman of the Friends of Ball's Bluff. His previous work includes a tactical study of Ball's Bluff titled A Little Short of Boats: The Battles of Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry and a chapter on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War for ECW's Turning Points of the Civil War. He also has written for Civil War Times, America's Civil War, The Artilleryman, Blue & Gray, and other periodicals. Retired in 2014 from the State Department, Jim spends much of his time as a National Park Service volunteer at Forts Sumter and Moultrie.