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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter. (search)
and the task of climbing the exterior slopes was made much easier, it became necessary to anchor a boom of heavy logs off the exposed slopes, to spread wire entanglements near the base of them., and to place a bristling array of fraises--sharpened wooden pikes, set in frames, all along the crest. These obstructions had to be removed in daytime, or they would have been destroyed. The exposure of the men assigned to this duty was very great; they were always personally directed by Lieutenant John H. Houston, of the Engineer troops. It was while engaged inspecting these obstructions that Captain Frank Huger Harleston, of the 1st Artillery, was mortally wounded on the night of November 24th, 1863. A complete system of interior defense was perfected as early as December, 1863, consisting of barricades and blindages of sand-bags or logs as the case required, loop-holed for infantry and pierced for howitzer fire, searching every part of the interior of the fort. The garrison, in event