...ch point or from Lanton's Place, one or two miles west, Charleston could be shelled at short-range, and Cummings Point, on the right, could afterward be secured for breaching Fort Sumter. This plan General Hunter delayed from day to day, not authorizing its execution, although at first he told General Benham to get ready for it. But when General Benham proposed to send, as part of the preparation, the cava...