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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
nd by impassable sloughs. The waters which bounded it on the east were deep enough to enable the monitors to come near it within good cannon-range, since the main channel lay along the island at a distance varying from 2167 yards at the bar up to 1301 at Fort Wagner. Once established on the southern extremity of the island, the Federals might then advance toward this fort in full security, protected on one side by the sloughs against an offensive return on the part of the enemy, and assured thed together 552,683 pounds. Out of this number, 4147 are said to have hit the work. Beauregard, counting all the shots fired against Sumter by the land-batteries and the fleet, reaches the the total figure of 5643, of which 4342 hit the fort and 1301 struck wide of the mark. All of Sumter's cannon were dismantled in succession; the garrison, which had taken refuge in the portions still intact of the casemates, gave up serving the guns from the second day. The work itself was completely ruined