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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cease defences — marine and water batteries. (search)
Cease defences — marine and water batteries. The Yankees are building, or intend building, a marine battery, which is to be clad in iron, and which, according to their usual Chinese clamor, is to demolish Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, and other Southern fortifications, with the greatest case. If they can construct a marine battery thus clad which can stand a sea voyage to Charleston, (which is doubtful,) why can we not construct a battery iron clad which can be used against Fortress Monroe? And, again, on the other hand, if a ship can be made ball proof against a land battery by being sheathed with iron, why cannot Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and other fortifications, be made equally invulnerable by being sheathed with the came material? That the South greatly needs a marine to act in conjunction with its harbor batteries, is evident enough; but, to supply this deficiency, is a work of time. The Charleston Mercury suggests that what we need now, for present emergencies, as a s