...vers. Their speed even then would not exceed four knots with all the revolutions their enginery could make. On October 26th the army again opened on Sumter from the nearest attainable points on Morris Island , and were aided by the cross-fire of 150-pounder rifles on board of the Patapsco and Lehigh. This seemed wholly a work of supererogation, as Sumter was in appearance and in reality only a mass of r...