November 3
1874: Beaufort’s Robert Smalls is elected to the South Carolina Legislature.
November 5
1895: Annie Wigg Smith, second wife of Robert Smalls, dies.
2019: Joe DeVito is elected Mayor of the Town of Port Royal, defeating Mayor Pro-Temp Mary Beth Gray-Heyward by 22 points.
November 7
1861: Union warships attack Fort Walker (Hilton Head Island) and Fort Beauregard (Phillips Island), initiating the Battle of Port Royal. The Union takes Port Royal and Beaufort. The same day, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee arrives, via the Charleston & Savannah Railroad, in Coosawhatchie. Lee, at the time still the Confederate commanding general for Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, establishes a headquarters there.
2011: Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer at age 67 in Philadelphia.
– Compiled by Mike McCombs
