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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The action at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. (search)
e enemy's gunboats is not, perhaps, unreasonable, considering the manner in which their deeds have been trumpeted and exaggerated; but it is very absurd and needless. I will state a few facts:--Horizontal, or rather direct shell firing, as from Dahlgren or rifled pieces, is destructive only to shipping or beddings. It has very little effect upon batteries, either with or without parapets, or upon troops deployed — This is due, I think, partly to the difficulty of causing the shell, even if welave never known a shell from the gunboats, exploding over an open battery or group or line of men, to do any harm. Last winter a portion of my command, under Capt. Froebel, was exposed to frequent day and night shell firing of 11 and 9-inch Dahlgren and rifled shells. The camp was shelled repeatedly, and fire started in it ones by some camphene contrivance in the missile. We had but one casualty. During the same time, the enemy's gunboats fired between one hundred and two hundred hea