November 3
1874: Beaufort’s Robert Smalls was elected to the South Carolina Legislature.
November 5
1895: Annie Wigg Smith, second wife of Robert Smalls, died.
2019: Joe DeVito was elected Mayor of the Town of Port Royal, defeating Mayor Pro-Temp Mary Beth Gray-Heyward by 22 points.
November 7
1861: Union warships attacked Fort Walker (Hilton Head Island) and Fort Beauregard (Phillips Island), initiating the Battle of Port Royal. The Union would take Port Royal and Beaufort. The same day, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived, via the Charleston & Savannah Railroad, in Coosawhatchie. Lee, at the time still the Confederate commanding general for Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, established a headquarters there.
2011: Joe Frazier died of liver cancer at age 67 in Philadelphia.
November 9
2019: Beaufort weightlifter C.J. Cummings won three silver medals in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk and Overall at the IWF Grand Prix in Lima, Peru.
– Compiled by Mike McCombs
