“Charleston, South Carolina. Post Office” 1865 (Library of Congress)
but a rebellion might slow it down some
About three weeks after federal troops occupied Charleston U.S. mail service had resumed from that city.
From The New-York Times March 7, 1865:
The First Mail from Charleston.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 6.
The steamer Massachusetts, which arrived here to-day, had on board the first United States mail that has left Charleston since the breaking out of the rebellion.
![Ruins of Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, S.C., April, 1865 ( photographed 1865, [printed later]; LOC: LC-DIG-ppmsca-35042)](https://www.bluegrayreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/35042r.jpg)
“Ruins of Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, S.C., April, 1865” (Library of Congress)
“Charleston, S.C. Orphan Asylum (160 Calhoun Street)” 1865 (Library of Congress)
According to a similar photograph at the Library of Congress the image of the Post Office also features “the only remaining palmetto in Charleston”.
