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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)
rs, the Queen of the Wave and the Georgiana, which, being hotly pursued by Federal ships, were driven upon the coast and abandoned by their crews. The operations against Charleston were about to commence. A regiment of infantry had occupied Cole's Island, on the left bank of the Stono River, on the 28th of March—a position extremely well chosen for commanding both this arm of the sea and the entrance of the long channel which under the name of Folly River runs as far as Secessionville. The ned this result, he hoped to be able to reduce the two batteries located along the sandbank of Morris Island; for the small size of this bank and the swamps which separated it from the mainland would have enabled the few regiments collected at Cole's Island to have taken permanent possession of it. It was therefore of paramount importance to destroy Fort Sumter before all: the north and north-west fronts being the most vulnerable, DuPont was desirous of making the attack on that side, but in ord