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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
s were particularly exposed. We have described elsewhere the approaches of the port of Charleston. A line of sandbanks stretches out from north to south for several miles eastward, leaving three passes of small importance on the side of Sullivan's Island, while the main pass, called Main Ship Channel, hugs the coast of Morris Island for a distance of four or five miles, and empties into the open sea at the southern extremity of the bank. The ships loaded with stones which the Federals hadains of James Island and Mount Pleasant, thus forming a belt equally impassable for the naval and land forces. The ships entering Charleston are obliged to pass between Fort Moultrie, situated at the extremity of the northern bank, called Sullivan's Island, and Fort Sumter, which stands upon a sandbank, a continuation of the southern bank called Morris Island. A space of fifteen hundred yards separates the two forts. A third work, built of masonry, called Castle Pinckney, formerly constitut