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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)
sses to the art employed by men to destroy one another, and over which the whippoorwill, the bird of the swamps, never tires of repeating its solitary plaint. By way of retaliation, the success of the firing on Fort Sumter was complete. The official reports concur on this point in a remarkable manner. It was marked with rare precision, despite the distance of 3250 to 4333 yards. According to Gillmore, leaving out of the account two pieces placed no doubt at too great a distance, twelve Parrott guns fired 4225 shots: their projectiles weighed 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