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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 237 237 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 96 96 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 32 32 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 20 20 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 16 16 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 16 16 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 15 15 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 14 14 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 14 14 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 14 14 Browse Search
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have fine weather, and it is expected the monitors will go in force to attack Sumter this afternoon. The Ironsides and our wooden vessels have shelled Wagner and Gregg every day keeping them quiet, while the shore batteries are hammering Sumter, Seven North Carolina deserters from Sullivan's Island were picked up in a boat last night by the Montauk. They say the rebels are preparing to abandon Sumter and blow it up. That they have been taking the guns out ever since the attack in April, which demonstrated their inability to hold it. That there are not more than six or eight guns now in the fort, the remainder being quaker. They also say that the cordon of beer barrels is merely intended to sustain telegraph wires between Sumter and Moultrie, and is no part of the obstructions of the harbor. The North Carolina troops are anxious to go home, and are almost in a state of mutiny. The rebel batteries on James Island throw shells night and day into our lines, but do n