...itors, and a large number of wooden steam gun-ships. With this immense circle of fire by land and sea, he poured, for eleven hours, without cessation or intermission, a storm of shot and shell upon Fort Wagner , which is, perhaps, unequalled in history. My estimation is that not less than nine thousand solid shot and shell of all sizes, from fifteeninch downwards, were hurled during this period, at the ...