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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
erney, and contain the celebrated Greek fire, which has been tried at Charleston. A letter to the Tribune, speaking of the experiments with this projectile, says: The day before yesterday some highly interesting experiments were made from Fort Brady, at the left of our lines on this side of the James, with an incendiary shell, which. I believe, bears the name of its inventor, Mr. A. Berney, of the Greek fire notoriety. One hundred pound shells were fired from our battery, under charge ofded, however, in drawing the fire from all of the three batteries which the rebels have been so busily engaged in planting across the James for some weeks past, twelve guns in all, and they poured the shell very lively, for near two hours, into Fort Brady. We have elicited this fact: that they have 7 and 8 inch Brooks's guns, 10 inch columbiads and Whitworth guns mounted over there, and that is about all, except that we can fire any building, or collection of buildings, which is within range of